Marduk Gate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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History
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Babylonian
The Marduk Gate is one of Babylon's eight city gates and it is situated on the eastern side of the inner city, directly east of the Kullab quarter. King Nebuchadnezzar II built the gate ca. 575 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/632147764
32.541837, 44.434361
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of the Marduk Gate (1600 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Abul-Marduk (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Marduk Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Šuʾâšu-rēʾi (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Marduk Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Marduk Gate part of (physical/topographic) Imgur-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Marduk Gate bounds Kullab (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Marduk Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
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gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
The Marduk Gate was one of four gates of the inner city of Babylon excavated by Robert Koldewey at the beginning of the 20th century. The gate is called the Belidan Gate in Herodotus (3.155.6).
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Marduk Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/632147764> [accessed: 17 December 2024]
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