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 29, 2023 12:41 PM
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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
35.9873101554, 38.1117988235
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tell Meskene (2335 BC - 1212 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tall Maskanah (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- 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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settlement, archaeological site
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Pleiades
Emar is located on the banks of the Euphrates river. The site is attested in cuneiform records from nearby sites dating from the Early and Middle Bronze Ages; Emar itself yielded cuneiform texts dating to the Late Bronze Age. The site was abandoned at the end of the Bronze Age, ca. 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, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Emar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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