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PART one: MESOPOTAMIA
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The city (Figure 29) covers almost a square mile. Two
gates are set on cither side, cx-
cept in the north-west, where one gate is replaced by a bastion built out on botli faces

PALACE-

GATE 7
GATE A

GATE 1
CITADEL GATE 11
CITY WALL WALL

GATE 6

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O >00 1000 1500 FEET
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GATE 5

F
GATE 2

GATE 4 GATE 3

Figure 29. Plan of Khorsabad

of the town wall. It served as a platform for the royal palace. At the southern end of the
town a similar fortress protected the entrance through gate 5, the most important one,
since the traffic to Nineveh and the south passed through it. It has been thought that the
building (F) served as a palace for the Crown Prince, who fulfilled certain well-defined
functions in the administration of the kingdom; but there is no evidence regarding its

“SXe royal palace a number of official buildings was grouped within the enclosing
11 of a citadel. Plate 78 shows a reconstructed view as it would have appeared from
wa
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