Negub tunnel
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 29, 2018 12:16 PM
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History
tags:
ANE
The Negub tunnel was part of an irrigation system that supported the Assyrian royal city of Nimrud.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/413309737
36.022095, 43.405813
- Representative Locations:
- Representative Location after the Helsinki Atlas (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 4270 meters.
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- Tebiltu (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Negub tunnel located near Nimrud (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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The canal/tunnel was constructed by the early Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II when he moved the administrative capital of Assyrian from Ashur to Calah. It was rebuilt by the 7th-century B.C. king Esarhaddon.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Negub tunnel: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/413309737> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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