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OSM Location of the Citadel Wall

a Pleiades location resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 08, 2018 06:03 AM — History
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Location based on OpenStreetMap way roughly tracing the outline of the upper surface of the mound of Kuyunjik, which corresponds with the assumed circuit of the citadel wall of Nineveh.

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wall (of a city), city wall

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Traces

Certain

Generic OSM Accuracy Assessment

representative

  • Akkadian-Ur III Mesopotamia (2335–2000 BC) (confident)
  • Old Babylonian/Assyrian Mesopotamia (2000–1600 BC) (less confident and inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
  • Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC) (less confident and inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
  • Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident, but inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
  • Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

Data Source:

OpenStreetMap (Way 559435626, version 1, osm:changeset=56147784, 2018-02-07T12:38:54Z)