Nēmed-Enlil
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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The outer wall of Babylon was called by the ceremonial Akkadian name Nēmed-Enlil/ Nēmetti-Enlil, which means "Bulwark of the God Enlil." According to the text Tintir = Babylon, Nēmed-Enlil (and the inner wall Imgur-Enlil) had eight city gates, four on the eastern side of the Euphrates and four on the western side of the river. The Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal and the Babylonian kings Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar II, and Nebonidus all undertook construction on Babylon’s outer wall.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897225060
32.536273489, 44.4241324184
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the northern curtain of Imgur-Enlil and Nemed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of the southern curtain of Imgur-Enlil and Nemed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Nēmed-Enlil (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Nēmetti-Enlil (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Nēmed-Enlil bounds Babylon (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Nēmed-Enlil bounds Imgur-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Adad Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Emah located near Nēmed-Enlil (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Enlil Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Ištar Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- King's Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Marduk Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- North Palace at Babylon located near Nēmed-Enlil (720 BC - 30 BC)
- Palace of Nebuchadnezzar II located near Nēmed-Enlil (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Uraš Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Zababa Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Šamaš Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
wall (of a city), city wall
Pleiades
The (shorter) outer, stone wall Nēmed-Enlil abuts the great, inner wall Imgur-Enlil.
Jamie Novotny, 'Nēmed-Enlil: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897225060> [accessed: 28 April 2024]
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