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Adad Gate

The northern city wall of Nineveh had three gates: the Adad Gate was the easternmost of the three. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Adad-šārik-hegalli-ana-māti, which means "The God Adad Is the Provider of Prosperity to the Land."

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