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Sîn Gate

a Pleiades place resource

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The northern city wall of Nineveh had three gates: the Sîn Gate was the westernmost of the three. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and called it the Gate of the Garden, which was given the Akkadian ceremonial name Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti ("The God Igisigsig Is the One Who Makes Orchards Flourish"). Late in 695 B.C. or early in 694 B.C., the gate was dedicated to the moon-god Sîn and renamed Nannāru-nāṣir-agê-bēlūtīya ("The Divine Nannāru Is the One Who Protects My Lordly Crown").

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967348568

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.3683265, 43.1432261

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the Sîn Gate (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Gate of the Garden (English, modern)
- Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Nannāru-nāṣir-agê-bēlūtīya (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Sîn Gate (English, modern)
- abul Sîn (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- abul kirâti (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Sîn Gate makes connections with:

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

Sîn Gate receives connections from:

Less than certain: Royal Road of Nineveh connection Sîn Gate (720 BC - 540 BC)

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

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The gate is mentioned in Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 697-691 B.C. In those texts, the Gate of the Gardens/Sîn Gate is always listed as the third gate of the northern stretch of wall. The gate is about 200 m from the western corner of the north wall. Part of its structure may have been excavated in 1965-66.

By 691 B.C, the Akkadian ceremonial name Igisigsig-mušammeh-ṣippāti was reassigned to the Step Gate of the Gardens, which was located in western wall, probably near the western entrance of the Palace of Sennacherib; it was south of the Mašqû Gate and the Step Gate of the Palace.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Sîn Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967348568> [accessed: 16 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967348568 |title=Places: 967348568 (Sîn Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 16, 2024 4:24 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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