Gleieh
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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May 07, 2025 02:22 PM
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History
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Gleieh (also Gleiʾeh, Glaiʿā) is a small site in the middle Euphrates region and was part of the kingdom of Suhu. The city, which is probably to be identified with ancient Kār-Apladad, was situated on the south bank of the Euphrates, opposite Sur Jureh (which lies on the northern bank). Like many towns and cities of the ancient kingdom of Suhu, Gleieh/Kār-Apladad is now underwater; the area was flooded after the construction of the Haditha dam.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/223856812
34.296753, 42.2019825
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of Gleieh (1000 BC - 720 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- CIGS location of Glay‘a (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Glay‘a (Arabic, modern)
- Gleieh (Arabic, modern)
- Less than certain: Kar-Apladad (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Gleieh located on Euphrates (river) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Gleieh located near Sur Jureh (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Azlāyyānu located near Gleieh (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Zawiyah located near Gleieh (1000 BC - 720 BC)
settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
Several Akkadian inscription of ruler(s) of the kingdom of Suhu were discovered at Gleieh.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Gleieh: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/223856812> [accessed: 24 May 2025]
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