Erra-šāgiš-zāmânīya
a Pleiades
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Akkadian ceremonial name of the gate, which means "The God Erra Is the One Who Slaughters Those Hostile to Me."
Erra-šāgiš-zāmânīya
Akkadian
geographic name
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- Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
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Pleiades
The name Erra-šāgiš-zāmânīya appears in and Akkadian inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dated to 694 B.C. In texts dated to 697-695 and 691 B.C., the Nergal gate is called Erra-mušamqit-ayyābī.