Step Gate of the Armory

wall · 720 BC – 2100 AD · location approximate

Nineveh's western wall had seven (or eight) gates: the Armory Gate (later Step Gate of the Armory) was the fifth gate from the northern city wall. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial names Pāqidat-kalāma ("The One Who Regulates Everything") and Lū-dāri-bānûša ("May Its Builder Live Forever").

Coordinates

36.34867, 43.15860

Also known as

Armory Gate (en), Lū-dāri-bānûša (akk), Pāqidat-kalāma (akk), abul ēkal māšarti (akk), mušlālum ēkal māšarti (akk)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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