Kasku (region)
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/270123727
39.4703799, 37.8807432
- None
- Kasku (region) connection Hatti (region) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Kasku (region) abuts Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kasku (region) abuts Phrygia (kingdom) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kasku (region) located near Pontus Euxinus (1450 BC - 540 BC)
- Kasku (region) abuts Tabālu (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kasku (region) abuts Urartu (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ellibir located near Kasku (region) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Šindarara located near Kasku (region) (720 BC - 540 BC)
unlocated, region
Pleiades
Kasku is mentioned in Middle Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian sources (Kasku, Kiski, Kaskāja), Elamite texts (Kaska), Ugaritic texts (Kaška), as well as in Hittite sources (Kaška).
The Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III (r. 744-727 BC) mentions Kasku between Meliddu and Tabālu, which would seemly suggest that it was located between Malataya and Kayseri; note, however, that a stele of that king, the so-called "Iran Stele," mentions it between Hubušnu and Carchemish, both of which are too far south. Sargon II (r. 721-705 BC), Tiglath-pileser's son and second successor, mentions Kasku between Urartu and Musku (Phrygia). That Assyrian king also states that he fortified Ellibir and Šindarara to prevent Kasku from encroaching on Assyrian territory, in particular into the Province of the Commander-in-Chief on the Left.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kasku (region): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/270123727> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/270123727 |title=Places: 270123727 (Kasku (region)) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=November 21, 2024 7:04 am |publisher=Pleiades}}