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Magidû

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE

Name of the city in an Assyrian royal inscription (reign of Esarhaddon), a letter (time of Sargon II), and two administrative documents.

Romanized Name(s):
Magidû

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

Bagg, RGTC 7/1 162-163

See Further:

Helsinki Atlas 2001 13

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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