Adad Gate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Feb 07, 2018 08:32 AM
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History
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ANE
The northern city wall of Nineveh had three gates: the Adad Gate was the easternmost of the three. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Adad-šārik-hegalli-ana-māti, which means "The God Adad Is the Provider of Prosperity to the Land."
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/719936358
36.374511, 43.1543883
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of the Adad Gate (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Adad Gate (English, modern)
- Adad-šārik-hegalli-ana-māti (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- abul Adad (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Adad Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Adad Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Adad Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)
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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. In those texts, the Adad Gate is listed as the first gate of the northern stretch of wall. The position of the gate is known and it was excavated/restored in 1966-68, 1973, and 1990-91. Around April 13, 2016, ISIS/ISIL demolished the Adad Gate and the adjacent wall with a bulldozer.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Adad Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/719936358> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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