Enlil Gate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
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ANE,
Babylonian
The Enlil Gate is one of Babylon's eight city gates and it is situated on the northwestern side of the inner city, directly north of the Bāb-Lugalerra quarter. King Nebuchadnezzar II built the gate ca. 575 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/704495840
32.539609, 44.416392
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Proposed location of the Enlil Gate (1600 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Abul-Enlil (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Enlil Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Enlil-munabbiršu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Enlil Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Enlil Gate bounds Bāb-Lugalerra (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Enlil Gate located near Euphrates (river) (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Enlil Gate part of (physical/topographic) Imgur-Enlil (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Enlil Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 30 BC)
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None
unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate
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The German excavators of Babylon did not excavate any of the city gates west of the Euphrates; the Enlil Gate was one of four unexcavated gates of the inner city.
Jamie Novotny, 'Enlil Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/704495840> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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