Sam'al
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 12, 2024 09:45 AM
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A Hittite and Aramaean city located at Zincirli Höyük in the Anti-Taurus mountains. The site appears in Neo-Assyrian sources as Samʾalla and Aramaic texts as šmʿl (also yʾdy). It is identified with the modern site of Zincirli.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/192555966
37.1031937144, 36.678330176
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Zincirli Höyük (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Zinčirli (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Samʾal (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Samʾalla (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Zincirli Hüyük (Zincirli Huyuk: Turkish, modern)
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- Samʾallāja (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Samʾalāja (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Sam'al capital of Sam'alla (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Sam'al capital of Sam'alla (province) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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findspot, place of finding, settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Sam'al: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/192555966> [accessed: 06 May 2024]
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