Shalmaneser Gate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 12, 2026 11:30 AM
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History
The “Shalmaneser Gate” gave access from the lower town of Kalhu to the citadel. This entrance, which was flanked by a pair of inscribed stone lions, was located on the east citadel wall, just north of the Nabû temple Ezida. This gate, which its excavators named after the ninth-century-BC Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III (r. 858–824 BC), is assumed to have been the main east citadel gate, especially since a road ran between it and the armory (Fort Shalmaneser) located in the southwest corner of the city.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/906423926
36.0975, 43.330705
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of the Shalmaneser Gate (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Shalmaneser Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Shalmaneser Gate located near Ezida (Kalhu) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Shalmaneser Gate located near Governor's Palace at Kalhu (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Shalmaneser Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nimrud (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, and Sean Gillies, 'Shalmaneser Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/906423926> [accessed: 08 March 2026]
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