Zababa Gate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 23, 2021 11:24 PM
—
History
tags:
ANE,
Babylonian
The Zababa Gate is one of Babylon's eight city gates and it is situated on the eastern side of the inner city, directly east of the TE.E quarter. King Nebuchadnezzar II built the gate ca. 575 B.C.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794488651
32.535602, 44.436979
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of the Zababa Gate (1600 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
-
- Abul-Zababa (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Izēr-âršu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Κισσίας πύλας (Kissias pylas: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Zababa Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Zababa Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Zababa Gate part of (physical/topographic) Imgur-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Zababa Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Zababa Gate bounds TE.E (1600 BC - 30 BC)
-
None
gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
The Zababa Gate was one of four gates of the inner city of Babylon excavated by Robert Koldewey at the beginning of the 20th century. The gate is called the Kissian Gate in Herodotus (3.155.6).
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Zababa Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794488651> [accessed: 23 April 2024]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794488651 |title=Places: 794488651 (Zababa Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 23, 2024 9:01 am |publisher=Pleiades}}