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Nergal Gate

a Pleiades place resource

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The northern city wall of Nineveh had three gates: the Nergal Gate was middle gate. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial names Erra-mušamqit-ayyābī ("The God Erra Is the One Who Cuts Down Enemies") and Erra-šāgiš-zāmânīya ("The God Erra Is the One Who Cuts Down My Enemies").

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/605179374

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.3711319, 43.1477283

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of the Nergal Gate (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Erra-mušamqit-ayyābī (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Erra-šāgiš-zāmânīya (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Nergal Gate (English, modern)
- abul Nergal (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Nergal Gate makes connections with:

Nergal Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
Nergal Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
Nergal Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)

Nergal Gate receives connections from:

Ešahulezenzagmukam located near Nergal Gate (720 BC - 540 BC)

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

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The gate is mentioned in Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 697-691 B.C. In those texts, the Nergal Gate is always listed as the second gate of the northern stretch of wall. Unlike Nineveh’s seventeen other gates, this entrance to the city is flanked by colossal stone human-headed winged bulls. The name of the gate is Erra-mušamqit-ayyābī in texts dated to 697-695 and 691 B.C. and Erra-šāgiš-zāmânīya in a text written in 694 B.C. The position of the gate is known and it was excavated in 1846, 1849-51, 1941, 1956, and 1966-67. Like several other gates, the Nergal Gate has been partially reconstructed.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Nergal Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/605179374> [accessed: 19 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/605179374 |title=Places: 605179374 (Nergal Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 19, 2024 9:36 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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