Khorsabad Gate 7
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The Anu Gate, the fifth of the eight city gates of Dūr-Šarrukīn mentioned in Sargon II’s royal inscriptions, might be identified as undecorated Khorsabad Gate 7, the southernmost entrance on the northwest wall.
Because there is no one-to-one correlation between Sargon’s inscriptions and available archaeological evidence, the proposed identification of the Anu Gate with Khorsabad Gate 7 remains open to debate. Alternative locations have been suggested: decorated Gate 6 and grand Citadel Gate B. Because one expects a plain gate to be named after Anu, Gate 7 seems to be the most plausible suggested location for the Anu Gate, especially since the listing of the gates of Dūr-Šarrukīn in textual sources is counterclockwise around the city, starting with the Šamaš Gate, which has been tentatively identified as decorated Gate 3.
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Less certain
- Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
Proleptic Julian years prior to establishment of the Gregorian calendar
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Pleiades