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Step Gate of the Palace

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Feb 09, 2018 01:55 PM — History

tags: ANE

Nineveh's western wall had seven (or eight) gates: the Step Gate of the Palace was the second 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 Libūr-ēpissa, which means "May Its Builder Endure." The gate is still unlocated, but, based on its everyday name Akkadian name mušlālum ša ēkalli ("Step Gate of the Palace"), it must have led up to Sennacherib's Palace on the citadel, perhaps up to the harem or its northern section.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/90291126

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.358005, 43.149093

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Conjectural location after Reade (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Libūr-ēpissa (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Step Gate of the Palace (English, modern)
- mušlālum ša ēkalli (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Step Gate of the Palace makes connections with:

Step Gate of the Palace part of (physical/topographic) Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
Step Gate of the Palace part of (physical/topographic) Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
Step Gate of the Palace part of (physical/topographic) Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)

Step Gate of the Palace receives connections from:

Palace of Sennacherib located near Step Gate of the Palace (720 BC - 540 BC)

Place type:
unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The gate is mentioned in an Akkadian inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 691 B.C. and, therefore, must have been built sometime between mid-694 and early 691. In that text, the Step Gate of the Palace is the second gate of the western stretch of wall; the gates are listed from north to south.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Step Gate of the Palace: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/90291126> [accessed: 26 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/90291126 |title=Places: 90291126 (Step Gate of the Palace) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 26, 2024 12:29 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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