Tunni
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Oct 28, 2020 10:10 AM
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History
Tunni is a mountain in Tabal. Inscriptions of the ninth-century-BC Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (r. 858-824 BC) refer to it as "the mountain of silver."
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/125566441
37.248, 34.3643
- Representative Locations:
- GeoHack location of Bolkar Mountains (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Tunni (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Less than certain: Tunni part of (physical/topographic) Antitaurus Mons (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Tunni located near Kilikiai Pylai (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Tunni located near Mulî (mountain) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Tunni part of (physical/topographic) Tabālu (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Tunni part of (physical/topographic) Taurus (mountain range) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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unlocated, mountain
Pleiades
Although the exact location of Mount Tunni is uncertain, scholars generally locate it in the Bolkar Mountains, near mount Mulî. Some scholars, however, place is further north and east, in the Ala Mountains (Anti-Taurus Mountains).
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tunni: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/125566441> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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