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abul Sîn

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Everyday/common Akkadian name of the Sîn Gate.

Romanized Name(s):
abul Sîn

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

See Further:

RINAP 3 Sennacherib 017 (Q003491)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The common name of the gate is abul Sîn ("Gate of the god Sîn") in Akkadian inscriptions of Sennacherib dated to 694-691 B.C.

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