Tell Leilan
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/223856813
36.9567091203, 41.5067045899
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tell Leilan (4000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tall Laiylān (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Shekhna (Akkadian, 3000 BC - 2000 BC)
- تل ليلان (Tall Laiylān: Arabic, modern)
- Tell Leilan (English, modern)
- Šubat-Enlil (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 1600 BC)
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findspot, place of finding, settlement, archaeological site
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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, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Tell Leilan: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/223856813> [accessed: 11 October 2024]
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