Step Gate of the Gardens
Nineveh's western wall had seven (or eight) gates: the Step Gate of the Gardens was the third gate from the northern city wall. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it sometime between 694 and 691 B.C. and he gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti, which means "The God Igisigsig Is the One Who Makes Orchards Flourish." The gate is still unlocated, but, based on its everyday name Akkadian name mušlālum ša kirî ("Step Gate of the Gardens"), it must have led up to Sennacherib's Palace on the citadel, perhaps at the foot of the sloping passage Room LI of the South-West Palace.
Step Gate of the Gardens
Nineveh's western wall had seven (or eight) gates: the Step Gate of the Gardens was the third gate from the northern city wall. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it sometime between 694 and 691 B.C. and he gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti, which means "The God Igisigsig Is the One Who Makes Orchards Flourish." The gate is still unlocated, but, based on its everyday name Akkadian name mušlālum ša kirî ("Step Gate of the Gardens"), it must have led up to Sennacherib's Palace on the citadel, perhaps at the foot of the sloping passage Room LI of the South-West Palace.
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Pleiades
mušlālum ša kirî
Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti
Step Gate of the Gardens
ANE
RLAss 9 402
RINAP 3/1 17-19
Reade 2016 84
RINAP 3 Sennacherib 018 (Q003492)
-720
mušlālum ša kirî
mušlālum ša kirî
Everyday/common Akkadian name of the gate.
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Pleiades
-540
ANE
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC)
ME [[-720,-540]]
RINAP 3 Sennacherib 018 (Q003492)
-720
Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti
Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti
Akkadian ceremonial name of the gate, which means "The God Igisigsig Is the One Who Makes Orchards Flourish."
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Pleiades
-540
ANE
RINAP 3 Sennacherib 018 (Q003492)
gate (of a city), city gate
1700
Step Gate of the Gardens
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Step Gate of the Gardens
Pleiades
2100
ANE
Modern (AD 1700-Present)
Our present, modern era. [[1700, 2100]]
Reade 2016 84
-720
Conjectural location after Reade
The representative, estimated location of the Gate is based on Reade, SAAB 22 (2016), 48, fig. 7.
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Pleiades
-540
ANE
Reade 2016 48, fig. 7