Enlil Gate
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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Babylonian
Pedersén 2021 31 fig. 2.1
BTTo Tintir V
George 1992 24 (fig. 4), 341–242
Enlil Gate
Pleiades
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.
Enlil Gate
Enlil-munabbiršu
Abul-Enlil
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Babylonian
Period as defined by Jamie Novotny
Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC)
Middle Assyrian/Middle Babylonian/Kassite Mesopotamia, LBA-Early Iron Age Mesopotamia, incl. Sea Peoples [[-1600,-1000]]
Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC)
ME [[-540, -330]]
Achaemenid Middle East (540–330 BC)
The Hellenistic period in Greek history and the middle-to-late Republican period in Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 330 and end in the year 30 before the birth of Christ. [[-330, -30]]
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC)
ME [[-720,-540]]
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC)
Proposed location of the Enlil Gate
-1600
Pleiades
The proposed location of the Enlil Gate is based on a plan of the ruins of Babylon, with 500 m UTM coordinates.
Pedersén 2021 31 fig. 2.1
-30
twenty-first century of the common era
gate (of a city), city gate
twentieth century of the common era
unlocated
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Babylonian
Enlil Gate
Enlil Gate
1900
Pleiades
English translation of Akkadian Abul-Enlil.
George 1992 341–342
2099
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Babylonian
Abul-Enlil
Abul-Enlil
-1600
Pleiades
Everyday, Akkadian name of the "Enlil Gate" at Babylon.
BTTo Tintir V
-30
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Babylonian
Enlil-munabbiršu
Enlil-munabbiršu
BTTo Tintir V
-720
Pleiades
The Akkadian ceremonial name of the Enlil Gate means "Enlil Makes It Shine." This name is mentioned in Tablet V of the series Tintir = Babylon.
-540