Mullissu Gate

wall · 720 BC – 2100 AD

Most 7th-century B.C. Assyrian inscriptions record that Nineveh had eight south- and east-facing gates: the Mullissu Gate was the fifth of these. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial names Ištar-zāninki-kurbī ("O Ištar Bless the One Who Provides for You!") and Ša-Sîn-ahhē-erība-manzalti-ereqqi-kinnī-palêšu ("Make Sennacherib's Dynasty as Firm as the Position of the Wagon Constellation!").

Coordinates

36.35068, 43.17541

Also known as

Ištar Gate (en), Ištar-zāninki-kurbī (akk), Kar-Mullissi Gate (en), abul Mullissi (akk), Ša-Sîn-ahhē-erība-manzalti-ereqqi-kinnī-palêšu (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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