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How many rooms did Sennacherib’s palace at Nineveh contain?
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Nineveh
The partially reconstructed Nergal Gate in Nineveh, Iraq.
Sennacherib’s palace at Nineveh, often referred to as the "palace without a rival," contained at least 80 rooms. Many of these chambers were decorated with pictorial reliefs carved on stone slabs, known as orthostats, which depicted the king's military campaigns and other subjects.123