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Šūhi Canal Gate

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The Neo-Babylonian kings Nabopolassar (r. 625–605 BC) and Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 604–562 BC) constructed an outer wall around the eastern side of Babylon. That mudbrick wall is reported to have had 120 towers and 5 entrances, including the Šūhi Canal Gate. This access point to the city was probably located on the northeastern stretch of the wall.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/510139757

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.561956, 44.427516

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Proposed location of the Šūhi Canal Gate (720 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Abullu ša Nār-Šūhi (Akkadian, 720 BC - 30 BC)
- Šūhi Canal Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)

Šūhi Canal Gate makes connections with:

Šūhi Canal Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 30 BC)
Šūhi Canal Gate part of (physical/topographic) Eastern Outer Wall of Babylon (720 BC - 30 BC)

Šūhi Canal Gate receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate

References:

Evidence:

BTTo City Walls of Babylon C

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

According to a text that might have been drawn up as an aide-memoire for Nebuchadnezzar II, the Babylonian king who completed the outer eastern wall of Babylon, the Šūhi Canal Gate is the first of the five gates and, presumably, the northernmost. The “City Walls of Babylon C” text records that there were twelve towers from the bank of the Euphrates River to the Šūhi Canal Gate and twenty-six towers between it and the next gate, the Madānu Canal Gate.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Šūhi Canal Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/510139757> [accessed: 10 May 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/510139757 |title=Places: 510139757 (Šūhi Canal Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=May 10, 2024 9:01 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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