Šamaš Gate
Most 7th-century B.C. Assyrian inscriptions record that Nineveh had eight south- and east-facing gates: the Šamaš Gate was the fourth of these. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Enlil-mukīn-palêya, which means "The God Enlil Is the One Who Makes My Reign Firm."
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Šamaš Gate
Most 7th-century B.C. Assyrian inscriptions record that Nineveh had eight south- and east-facing gates: the Šamaš Gate was the fourth of these. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Enlil-mukīn-palêya, which means "The God Enlil Is the One Who Makes My Reign Firm."
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Assyria 1995
Pickworth 2005
RINAP 3 Sennacherib 016 (Q003490)
RINAP 3 Sennacherib 017 (Q003491)
RINAP 3/1 17-19
RLAss 9 401
Reade 2016 71
Stronach and Lumsden 1992
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Enlil Gate
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