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Tâmtu ša Amurrû

a Pleiades name resource

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An Akkadian name for the Mediterranean Sea. Tâmtu ša Amurrû ("sea of Amurrû/the West") is attested in royal inscriptions of the ninth-century-BC Assyrian king Shalmaneser III.

Tâmtu ša Amurrû


Akkadian

geographic name

accurate

complete

Certain

  • Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)

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Pleiades