Tarbisu
Sign in to saveTarbiṣu (modern Sherif Khan, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient city about 3 miles north of Nineveh.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Tarbisu
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Sherif Khan
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.map_size
- 200
- Ancient site.location
- Ninawa Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.type
- settlement
- Ancient site.built
- 2rd millennium BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Bronze Age, Iron Age
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1850, 1852
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Austen Henry Layard, Sir Henry Rawlinson
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
- Ancient site.ownership
- Public
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
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Tarbiṣu (modern Sherif Khan, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient city about 3 miles north of Nineveh.
==History== The first mention of location was in a chronicle of Middle Assyrian ruler Arik-den-ili (c. 1317–1306 BC). Tarbiṣu was a minor town which was under the control of Assyria early in the 1st Millennium BC with an early inscription found there dating to the rule of Shalmaneser III (859–824 BC). It grew in size and importance after the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire was moved to nearby Nineveh by Sennacherib. Two palaces were built there, one by Esarhaddon for his son and crown prince, Ashurbanipal. Two temples were found at the site, one being the temple of Nergal, constructed by Sennacherib, and added to by Ashurbanipal. One of the gates in the northwest wall of Nineveh was named for Nergal and the road from that gate to Tarbiṣu was paved completely in stone by Sennacherib.