Ištar Gate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 22, 2021 09:30 AM
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History
The Ištar Gate is the most famous of Babylon's eight city gates and is situated on the northeastern side of the inner city, directly north of the Kadingirra quarter. King Nebuchadnezzar II built the gate ca. 575 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/653377582
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- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of the Ishtar Gate at Babylon (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
- OSM Location of the Ishtar Gate (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Abul-Ištar (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Ishtar Gate (English, modern)
- Ištar-sākipat-tēbîša (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ištar Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Ištar Gate part of (physical/topographic) Imgur-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Ištar Gate bounds Ka-dingirra (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Ištar Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Ay-ibūr-šabû located at Ištar Gate (720 BC - 100 BC)
- Emah located near Ištar Gate (720 BC - 540 BC)
- North Palace at Babylon located near Ištar Gate (720 BC - 30 BC)
- Palace of Nebuchadnezzar II located near Ištar Gate (720 BC - 540 BC)
gate (of a city), city gate
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Robert Koldewey excavated the remains of the decorated glazed-brick structure at the beginning of the 20th century. A reconstruction of it (using original bricks) is now on display in the Pergamon Museum (Berlin).
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ištar Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/653377582> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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