Erra-mušamqit-ayyābī
a Pleiades
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ANE
Akkadian ceremonial name of the gate, which means "The God Erra Is the One Who Cuts Down Enemies."
Erra-mušamqit-ayyābī
Akkadian
geographic name
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- Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
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Pleiades
The name Erra-mušamqit-ayyābī appears in Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dated to 697-695 and 691 B.C. The Nergal gate is called Erra-šāgiš-zāmânīya in a text written in 694 B.C.