Step Gate of the Gardens
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/886029329
36.35647, 43.150494
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Conjectural location after Reade (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Step Gate of the Gardens (English, modern)
- mušlālum ša kirî (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Step Gate of the Gardens part of (physical/topographic) Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Step Gate of the Gardens part of (physical/topographic) Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Step Gate of the Gardens located near Khosr River (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Step Gate of the Gardens part of (physical/topographic) Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib located near Step Gate of the Gardens (720 BC - 540 BC)
gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
The gate is mentioned in an Akkadian inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 691 B.C. and, therefore, must have been built sometime between mid-694 and early 691. In that text, the Step Gate of the Palace is the third gate of the western stretch of wall; the gates are listed from north to south.
Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti was originally the Akkadian ceremonial name of the Gate of the Garden, before it became the Sîn Gate.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Step Gate of the Gardens: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/886029329> [accessed: 13 October 2024]
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