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Tâmtu elēnītu ša šalām Šamši

a Pleiades name resource

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An Akkadian name for the Mediterranean Sea. Tâmtu elēnītu ša šalām Šamši ("upper sea of the setting sun") is attested in royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Sennacherib.

Tâmtu elēnītu ša šalām Šamši


Akkadian

geographic name

accurate

complete

Certain

  • Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

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Pleiades