Step Gate
wall · 720 BC – 2100 AD · location approximate
Most 7th-century B.C. Assyrian inscriptions record that Nineveh had eight south- and east-facing gates: the Step Gate was the sixth of these. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Mušēṣât-šīr-asakki, which means "The One Who Exorcises the 'Flesh' of the Asakku-demon."
- Coordinates
- 36.36328, 43.17240
- Also known as
- Asakki Stairway Gate (en), Mushlalu Gate (en), Mušēṣât-šīr-asakki (akk), abul mušlālum (akk)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)