Šibaniba Gate
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/719936356
36.3718555, 43.1668081
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- Uncertain: Conjectural location of the Šibaniba Gate (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Dumuq-ašnan-u-lahar-qerebša-kayyān (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- abul Šibaniba (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Šibaniba Gate (English, modern)
- Šibaniba Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Šibaniba Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Šibaniba Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)
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unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
The gate is mentioned in Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 697-691 B.C. Most of Sennacherib’s inscriptions record that the Šibaniba Gate was the seventh of the south- and east-facing gates. One inscription, however, states that it was the sixth of those gates.
The gate’s exact position is uncertain and cannot be confirmed from in-situ inscriptions. Most scholarly reconstructions place the Šibaniba Gate about 900 m or 1,450 m south of the northeast corner of Nineveh’s wall (coordinates: respectively 36.3718555, 43.1668081 and 36.3674842, 43.1700696). Julian Reade (SAAB 22 [2016], 77-80) has recently suggested two alternative locations for this gate: (1) approximately 2,000 m south of the northeast corner (coordinates: 36.3632768, 43.1724032), the spot where scholars traditionally locate the Step Gate, and (2) about 2,800 m north of the southeast corner, just south of the Khosr River, the location where most scholarly reconstructions place the Mullissu Gate (coordinates: 36.361431, 43.173201). Given the fairly regular spacing of the gates along the eastern stretch of wall, the Šibaniba Gate in this resource is tentatively located 900 m south of the northeast corner of the city.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Šibaniba Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/719936356> [accessed: 07 October 2024]
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