Northwest Palace at Kalhu
a Pleiades
connection
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The seventh-century-BC Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 680–669 BC) used (inscribed and sculpted) limestone wall slabs from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud in the construction of his palace at Kalhu.
material sourced from
Certain
- Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
Proleptic Julian years prior to establishment of the Gregorian calendar
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