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Seashore 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 Seashore Gate. This access point to the city was probably located on the southern stretch of the wall.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894056377

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.527286, 44.427562

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Proposed location of the Seashore Gate (720 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Abul-šapat-tâmtum (Akkadian, 720 BC - 30 BC)
- Seashore Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)

Seashore Gate makes connections with:

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

Seashore 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 Seashore Gate is the fifth of the five gates and, presumably, the westernmost on the southern stretch of wall. The “City Walls of Babylon C” text records that there were thirty towers between it and Sun of the Gods Gate (to the east).

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Seashore Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894056377> [accessed: 03 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894056377 |title=Places: 894056377 (Seashore Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=December 3, 2024 2:37 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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