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Tâmtu erēb Šamši

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

An Akkadian name for the Mediterranean Sea. Tâmtu erēb Šamši ("sea of the setting sun [lit: entry of the sun]") is attested in royal inscriptions of the eighth-century-BC Assyrian king Sargon II.

Romanized Name(s):
Tâmtu erēb Šamši

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

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

References:

Citation:

Bagg, RGTC 7/1 294-299

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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