Sam'alla (province)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Oct 21, 2020 03:37 PM
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History
The eighth-century-BC Assyrian king Shalmaneser V (r. 726-722 BC) conquered Sam'al and its territory and established the city as the administrative capital of an Assyrian province named after it.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/227756061
37.2048215724, 36.3389661284
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- Sam'alla (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Sam'alla (province) abuts Internum Mare (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Sam'alla (province) abuts Marqasi (province) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Sam'alla (province) abuts Que (province) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Sam'alla (province) succeeds Sam'alla (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Sam'al capital of Sam'alla (province) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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The province is first attested in an administrative records of Sargon II (r. 721-705 BC); it is also mentioned in a text dating to the reign of Ashurbanipal (r. 668-ca. 631 BC). The governor of Sam’al held the post of eponym in the year 681 BC.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Sam'alla (province): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/227756061> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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