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Madānu Canal Gate

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The Neo-Babylonian kings Nabopolassar (r. 625–605 BC) and Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 604–562 BC) constructed an outer wall around the eastern side of Babylon. That mudbrick wall is reported to have had 120 towers and 5 entrances, including the Madānu Canal Gate. This access point to the city was probably located on the eastern stretch of the wall.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/87882504

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.552338, 44.438145

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Proposed location of the Madānu Canal Gate (720 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Abullu ša Nār-Madānu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 30 BC)
- Madānu Canal Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)

Madānu Canal Gate makes connections with:

Madānu Canal Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 30 BC)
Madānu Canal Gate part of (physical/topographic) Eastern Outer Wall of Babylon (720 BC - 30 BC)

Madānu Canal Gate receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate

References:

Evidence:

BTTo City Walls of Babylon C

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

According to a text that might have been drawn up as an aide-memoire for Nebuchadnezzar II, the Babylonian king who completed the outer eastern wall of Babylon, the Madānu Canal Gate is the second of the five gates. The “City Walls of Babylon C” text records that there were twenty-six towers between it and the Šuhi Canal Gate (to the north) and twenty-nine between it and the Giššu Gate (to the south).

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Madānu Canal Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/87882504> [accessed: 25 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/87882504 |title=Places: 87882504 (Madānu Canal Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 25, 2024 4:51 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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