King's Gate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Jan 28, 2021 10:13 AM
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History
tags:
ANE,
Babylonian
The King's Gate is one of Babylon's eight city gates and it is situated on the western side of the inner city, directly west of the nu-x-ù quarter. King Nebuchadnezzar II built the gate ca. 575 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897449051
32.531412, 44.407549
- Representative Locations:
- Proposed location of the King's Gate (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Abul-šarri (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 30 BC)
- King's Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Libūr-nādûšu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- King's Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- King's Gate part of (physical/topographic) Imgur-Enlil (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- King's Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Less than certain: King's Gate bounds nu-x-ù (1600 BC - 30 BC)
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None
unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate
- Evidence:
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Pleiades
The German excavators of Babylon did not excavate any of the city gates west of the Euphrates; the King's Gate was one of four unexcavated gates of the inner city.
Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'King's Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897449051> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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