Personal tools
You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Step Gate → Conjectural location of the Step Gate

Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Conjectural location of the Step Gate

a Pleiades location resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Mar 03, 2023 07:39 PM — History
tags:
The representative, estimated location of the gate is based on Reade, RLAss 9 (2000), 390 fig. 1, and Reade (2016), 51 (fig. 10).

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.


gate (of a city), city gate

{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 43.1724032, 36.3632768 ] }

Substantive

Uncertain

representative

  • Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

Data Source:

Pleiades

The gate’s location is based on an aerial photograph of Nineveh taken in 1929, Corona satellite imagery (1967-68), and Google satellite imagery. Julian Reade (SAAB 22 [2016], 74-77) proposes that the Step Gate should about 500 m further south (36.3590074, 43.1740733). Some modern reconstructions of the city gates place the gate north of the coordinates given in this resource, about 650 m from the Khosr River and 1,450 m from Nineveh’s northeastern corner (estimated coordinates: 36.3674842, 43.1700696).