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Karnaia/Astaroth?

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Oct 04, 2024 08:37 PM — History
An ancient site located south of Damascus, Syria, that is mentioned in the Amarna letters (ca. 1350 B.C.). The site is often associated with the Biblical 'Ashteroth Karnaim'.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678227

32.837408, 36.029358
    • *Qarnīnu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
    • Less than certain: Astaroth (30 BC - AD 640)
    • Less than certain: Astartu (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
    • Karnaia (330 BC - AD 640)
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settlement

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 69 D4 Karnaia/Astaroth?

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tell Ashtara SYR


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E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Karnaia/Astaroth?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678227> [accessed: 26 March 2025] 

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