Šibaniba 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 Šibaniba Gate was the seventh of these. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Dumuq-ašnan-u-lahar-qerebša-kayyān, which means "The Choicest of Grain and Flocks Are Constantly Inside It."
- Coordinates
- 36.37186, 43.16681
- Also known as
- Dumuq-ašnan-u-lahar-qerebša-kayyān (akk), abul Šibaniba (akk)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)