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Desert Gate

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").

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