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Royal Road of Nineveh

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).
Last modified Feb 06, 2018 06:03 AM — History
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As part of transformation of Nineveh’s lower town at the beginning of the 7th century B.C., the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib created a broad royal road that ran all the way through the city. That fifty-two-cubit-wide road, whose ancient ceremonial name is not known, is still unlocated, but it is generally thought to have run north from the Aššur Gate, east past the armory and the citadel, to the Sîn Gate (formerly the Gate of the Gardens).

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unlocated, road

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Inscribed and sculpted steles were erected on both sides of the royal road. Three of these steles are known today.


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Jamie Novotny, 'Royal Road of Nineveh: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897975988> [accessed: 22 November 2024] 

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