Tell Leilan
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
May 31, 2021 11:01 PM
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History
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ANE
Tell Leilan is situated near the Wadi Jarrah, in the Khabur River basin in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. The ancient names of the site are Shekhna and Shubat-Enlil.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/223856813
36.9554182406, 41.5065091798
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tell Leilan (4000 BC - 1000 BC)
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- Shekhna (Akkadian, 3000 BC - 2000 BC)
- Tell Leilan (English, modern)
- Šubat-Enlil (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 1600 BC)
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settlement
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The archaeological site of Tell Leilan is occupied from the fifth millennium B.C. After 1800 B.C. the site became the Assyrian capital in Northern Mesopotamia and abandonment would follow ca. 1700 B.C.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tell Leilan: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/223856813> [accessed: 08 December 2023]
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