Adad Gate
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/789265692
36.5052053298, 43.2361240502
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- Adad-mukīn-ḫegallīya (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Adad-mukīn-ḫegallīšu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Adad Gate part of (physical/topographic) Aššur-mušalbir-palê-šarri-ēpišīšu-nāṣir-ummānīšu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Adad Gate part of (physical/topographic) Dur-Sharrukin (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Adad Gate same as Khorsabad Gate 2 (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Adad Gate part of (physical/topographic) Ninurta-mukīn-temmēn-ālišu-ana-labār-ūmē-rūqūti (720 BC - 540 BC)
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unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
The Adad Gate is the second of Dūr-Šarrukīn’s two east-facing (meḫret šadî) gates. Because ‘east’ (Akkadian šadû) can refer to both southeast and northeast in Akkadian sources, it is uncertain if the Adad Gate was located on the city’s southeast or northeast wall and, therefore, it is uncertain if that entranceway to Sargon II’s newly-constructed capital should be identified as Khorsabad Gate 1, Gate 2, Gate 3, or Gate 4. Since one expects a plain gate to be dedicated to Adad, Gate 2, the southernmost portal on the northeast wall, seems to be the most plausible suggested location for the Adad Gate; Gates 1 and 3 are both grand, decorated entrances and, thus, seem unlikely to have been named after the storm-god.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Adad Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/789265692> [accessed: 06 October 2024]
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