Desert Gate

wall · 720 BC – 2100 AD · location approximate

Nineveh's western wall had seven (or eight) gates: the Desert Gate was the southernmost gate along that stretch of wall. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it sometime between 695 and 691 B.C. and he gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Kadrê-Tēme-u-Sumuʾel-qerebša-irrub ("The Presents of the People of Tēma and Sumuʾel Enter Through It").

Coordinates

36.33900, 43.16771

Also known as

Kadrê-Sumuʾel-u-Tēme-qerebša-irrub (akk), Kadrê-Tēme-u-Sumuʾel-qerebša-irrub (akk), abul madbari (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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