Emar
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 08, 2017 02:29 PM
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History
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An important Bronze Age trading center in northern Syria. The site is known today as Tell Meskene.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092
35.9870203108, 38.1109976469
- OSM location of Tell Meskene (2335 BC - 1212 BC)
- Emar (Akkadian, 2335 BC - 1200 BC)
- Imar (Akkadian, 2335 BC - 1200 BC)
- تل مسكنة (Tell Meskene: Arabic, modern)
- Emar succeeds Barbalissus (unspecified date range)
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Emar is located on the bank of the Euphrates. The site is attested in cuneiform records of nearby sites from the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, and yielded cuneiform texts itself in the Late Bronze Age. The site was abandoned at the end of the Bronze Age, c. 1180 BCE. Parts of the site were used for burials in the Byzantine and Islamic periods, as part of the settlement at Barbalissus.
Gabriel Mckee, Müge Durusu, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Emar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092> [accessed: 17 January 2019]
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