{ "features": [ { "geometry": { "type": "LineString", "coordinates": [ [ 38.1079405, 35.9873347 ], [ 38.1079887, 35.9870786 ], [ 38.1082033, 35.9868702 ], [ 38.109185, 35.9865056 ], [ 38.1098985, 35.9864101 ], [ 38.1107675, 35.9863711 ], [ 38.1118136, 35.9861106 ], [ 38.1121572, 35.9858914 ], [ 38.1127738, 35.9858762 ], [ 38.1136163, 35.9857178 ], [ 38.1137987, 35.9859609 ], [ 38.1133736, 35.9873959 ], [ 38.1127819, 35.9875841 ], [ 38.1119265, 35.9875721 ], [ 38.110038, 35.9884763 ], [ 38.1087612, 35.987912 ], [ 38.1081068, 35.9875213 ], [ 38.1079405, 35.9873347 ] ] }, "type": "Feature", "id": "osm-location-of-tell-meskene", "properties": { "snippet": "Settlement; 2335 BC - 1212 BC", "link": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092/osm-location-of-tell-meskene", "description": "Location based on OpenStreetMap", "location_precision": "precise", "title": "OSM location of Tell Meskene" } }, { "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 38.1126, 35.9876 ] }, "type": "Feature", "id": "cigs-location-of-tall-maskanah", "properties": { "snippet": "Archaeological-site", "link": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092/cigs-location-of-tall-maskanah", "description": "", "location_precision": "precise", "title": "CIGS location of Tall Maskanah" } } ], "contributors": [ { "username": "mdurusu", "homepage": null, "name": "Müge Durusu", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/mdurusu" }, { "username": "jbecker", "homepage": null, "name": "Jeffrey Becker", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/jbecker" }, { "username": "cjohansson", "homepage": null, "name": "Carolin Johansson", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/cjohansson" }, { "username": "thomase", "homepage": null, "name": "Tom Elliott", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/thomase" }, { "username": "rrattenborg", "homepage": null, "name": "Rune Rattenborg", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/rrattenborg" } ], "locations": [ { "contributors": [ { "username": "mdurusu", "homepage": null, "name": "Müge Durusu", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/mdurusu" }, { "username": "gmckee", "homepage": null, "name": "Gabriel Mckee", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/gmckee" }, { "username": "thomase", "homepage": null, "name": "Tom Elliott", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/thomase" } ], "associationCertainty": "certain", "attestations": [ { "timePeriod": "akkadian-ur-iii-mesopotamia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/akkadian-ur-iii-mesopotamia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" }, { "timePeriod": "old-babylonian-assyrian-mesopotamia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/old-babylonian-assyrian-mesopotamia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" }, { "timePeriod": "old-hittite-anatolia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/old-hittite-anatolia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" }, { "timePeriod": "egyptian-hittite-levant", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/egyptian-hittite-levant", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" } ], "references": [ { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/226877980", "citationDetail": "Way 226877980", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsDataSource", "shortTitle": "OSM", "bibliographicURI": "", "formattedCitation": "osm:way=226877980", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "citesAsDataSource" }, { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "", "citationDetail": "", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/seeFurther", "shortTitle": "Chavals 1996", "bibliographicURI": "http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34244364", "formattedCitation": "Chavalas, Mark. 1996. Emar: the history, religion, and culture of a Syrian town in the late Bronze Age. Bethesda: CDL Press.", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "seeFurther" } ], "id": "osm-location-of-tell-meskene", "featureTypeURI": [ "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/place-types/settlement" ], "end": -1212, "title": "OSM location of Tell Meskene", "provenance": "OpenStreetMap (Way 226877980, version 4, osm:changeset=44521496, 2016-12-19T17:51:37Z)", "associationCertaintyURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/association-certainty/certain", "start": -2335, "locationTypeURI": [ "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/place-types/settlement" ], "archaeologicalRemains": "traces", "details": "
Emar/Imar is attested in cuneiform sources between c.2400-1180 BCE.
", "review_state": "published", "accuracy_value": 20.0, "accuracy": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/features/metadata/generic-osm-accuracy-assessment", "featureType": [ "settlement" ], "description": "Location based on OpenStreetMap", "created": "2016-12-19T17:54:46Z", "geometry": { "type": "LineString", "coordinates": [ [ 38.1079405, 35.9873347 ], [ 38.1079887, 35.9870786 ], [ 38.1082033, 35.9868702 ], [ 38.109185, 35.9865056 ], [ 38.1098985, 35.9864101 ], [ 38.1107675, 35.9863711 ], [ 38.1118136, 35.9861106 ], [ 38.1121572, 35.9858914 ], [ 38.1127738, 35.9858762 ], [ 38.1136163, 35.9857178 ], [ 38.1137987, 35.9859609 ], [ 38.1133736, 35.9873959 ], [ 38.1127819, 35.9875841 ], [ 38.1119265, 35.9875721 ], [ 38.110038, 35.9884763 ], [ 38.1087612, 35.987912 ], [ 38.1081068, 35.9875213 ], [ 38.1079405, 35.9873347 ] ] }, "locationType": [ "representative" ], "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092/osm-location-of-tell-meskene", "creators": [ { "username": "jbecker", "homepage": null, "name": "Jeffrey Becker", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/jbecker" } ], "@type": "Location", "history": [ { "action": "Publish externally", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-03-08T19:29:10Z" }, { "comment": "added reference provided by gmckee", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-02-09T16:12:36Z" }, { "comment": "Edited", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2016-12-21T17:14:42Z" }, { "comment": "Edited", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2016-12-21T17:14:05Z" }, { "comment": "Edited", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2016-12-21T17:13:04Z" }, { "action": "Submit for review", "modifiedBy": "jbecker", "modified": "2016-12-19T19:19:08Z" }, { "comment": "added location", "modifiedBy": "jbecker", "modified": "2016-12-19T17:54:59Z" }, { "comment": "Location from OSM created by Products.PleiadesEntity.browser.osm.OSMLocationFactory", "modifiedBy": "jbecker", "modified": "2016-12-19T17:54:46Z" }, { "action": "Create", "modifiedBy": "jbecker", "modified": "2016-12-19T17:54:46Z" } ] }, { "contributors": [], "associationCertainty": "certain", "attestations": [], "references": [ { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203875506", "citationDetail": "page 227", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/seeFurther", "shortTitle": "Bryce 2009", "bibliographicURI": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/pleiades/items/ZSXV8M2K", "formattedCitation": "Centre point location extracted from polygon drawn around entire site as identified on Google Earth base imagery in QGIS 3.x.
", "review_state": "published", "accuracy_value": 5.0, "accuracy": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/features/metadata/google-earth-2016ff", "featureType": [ "archaeological-site" ], "description": "", "created": "2023-03-29T13:09:57Z", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 38.1126, 35.9876 ] }, "locationType": [ "representative" ], "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092/cigs-location-of-tall-maskanah", "creators": [ { "username": "cjohansson", "homepage": null, "name": "Carolin Johansson", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/cjohansson" }, { "username": "rrattenborg", "homepage": null, "name": "Rune Rattenborg", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/rrattenborg" } ], "@type": "Location", "history": [ { "action": "Publish externally", "modifiedBy": "jbecker", "modified": "2023-03-29T16:41:11Z" }, { "action": "Submit for review", "modifiedBy": "cjohansson", "modified": "2023-03-29T13:13:48Z" }, { "comment": "Initial revision", "modifiedBy": "cjohansson", "modified": "2023-03-29T13:09:57Z" }, { "action": "Create", "modifiedBy": "cjohansson", "modified": "2023-03-29T13:09:57Z" } ] } ], "connections": [ { "end": null, "description": "", "contributors": [], "created": "2016-12-19T21:08:52Z", "associationCertainty": "certain", "title": "Barbalissus", "start": null, "provenance": "Pleiades", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092/barbalissus", "connectionType": "succeeds", "id": "barbalissus", "attestations": [], "history": [ { "action": "Publish externally", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-03-08T19:29:09Z" }, { "action": "Submit for review", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-21T06:55:54Z" }, { "comment": "Initial revision", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-19T21:08:53Z" }, { "action": "Create", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-19T21:08:52Z" } ], "connectsTo": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668208", "details": "", "references": [], "review_state": "published", "creators": [ { "username": "mdurusu", "homepage": null, "name": "Müge Durusu", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/mdurusu" } ], "@type": "Connection", "connectionTypeURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/relationship-types/succeeds" } ], "references": [ { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "", "citationDetail": "", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/seeFurther", "shortTitle": "Chavalas 1996", "bibliographicURI": "http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34244364", "formattedCitation": "Chavalas, Mark. 1996. Emar: the history, religion, and culture of a Syrian town in the late Bronze Age. Bethesda: CDL Press.", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "seeFurther" }, { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emar", "citationDetail": "Emar", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/seeFurther", "shortTitle": "Wikipedia (English)", "bibliographicURI": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/2533/items/CI6F6W7W", "formattedCitation": "Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Emar.", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "seeFurther" }, { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "", "citationDetail": "", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/seeAlso", "shortTitle": "Margueron 1993-1995", "bibliographicURI": "http://www.worldcat.org/title/reallexikon-der-assyriologie-8-bd-meek-mythologie/oclc/769816140&referer=brief_results", "formattedCitation": "Margueron, Jean-Claude. 1993. \"Meskene (Imar/Emar).\" Reallexicon der Assyriologie 8 (1/2): 84-93.", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "seeAlso" }, { "alternateURI": "http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/archaeology/berytus44/emar/index2.html", "accessURI": "", "citationDetail": "", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/seeAlso", "shortTitle": "Leisten and Finkbeiner 1999-2000", "bibliographicURI": "https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2613063", "formattedCitation": "Leisten, Thomas and Uwe Finkbeiner. 1999-2000. \"Emar & Balis 1996-1998. Preliminary Report of the Joint Syrian-German Excavations with the Collaboration of Princeton University.I. Emar 1996 and 1998.\" Berytus 44 (1999-2000): 5-34.", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "seeAlso" } ], "names": [ { "nameType": "geographic", "transcriptionAccuracy": "accurate", "associationCertainty": "certain", "romanized": "Tell Meskene", "attestations": [ { "timePeriod": "modern", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/modern", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" } ], "references": [ { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emar", "citationDetail": "Emar", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/seeFurther", "shortTitle": "Wikipedia (English)", "bibliographicURI": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/2533/items/CI6F6W7W", "formattedCitation": "Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Emar.", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "seeFurther" } ], "id": "tell-meskene", "end": 2100, "contributors": [], "provenance": "Pleiades", "associationCertaintyURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/association-certainty/certain", "start": 1700, "details": "", "review_state": "published", "description": "", "transcriptionCompleteness": "complete", "language": "ar", "created": "2016-12-19T15:16:56Z", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092/tell-meskene", "creators": [ { "username": "gmckee", "homepage": null, "name": "Gabriel Mckee", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/gmckee" } ], "attested": "تل مسكنة", "@type": "Name", "history": [ { "action": "Publish externally", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-03-08T19:29:09Z" }, { "action": "Submit for review", "modifiedBy": "gmckee", "modified": "2016-12-19T15:17:22Z" }, { "comment": "Initial revision", "modifiedBy": "gmckee", "modified": "2016-12-19T15:16:57Z" }, { "action": "Create", "modifiedBy": "gmckee", "modified": "2016-12-19T15:16:56Z" } ] }, { "nameType": "geographic", "transcriptionAccuracy": "accurate", "associationCertainty": "certain", "romanized": "Emar", "attestations": [ { "timePeriod": "akkadian-ur-iii-mesopotamia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/akkadian-ur-iii-mesopotamia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" }, { "timePeriod": "old-babylonian-assyrian-mesopotamia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/old-babylonian-assyrian-mesopotamia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" }, { "timePeriod": "late-bronze-age-anatolia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/late-bronze-age-anatolia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" } ], "references": [ { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "", "citationDetail": "", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/cites", "shortTitle": "Chavalas 1996", "bibliographicURI": "http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/611927883", "formattedCitation": "Mark Chavalas, Emar: the history, religion, and culture of a Syrian town in the late Bronze Age (Bethesda: CDL Press, 1996)", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "cites" } ], "id": "emar", "end": -1200, "contributors": [ { "username": "thomase", "homepage": null, "name": "Tom Elliott", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/thomase" } ], "provenance": "Pleiades", "associationCertaintyURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/association-certainty/certain", "start": -2335, "details": "", "review_state": "published", "description": "", "transcriptionCompleteness": "complete", "language": "akk", "created": "2016-12-19T21:07:11Z", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092/emar", "creators": [ { "username": "mdurusu", "homepage": null, "name": "Müge Durusu", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/mdurusu" }, { "username": "gmckee", "homepage": null, "name": "Gabriel Mckee", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/gmckee" } ], "attested": "", "@type": "Name", "history": [ { "action": "Publish externally", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-03-08T19:29:10Z" }, { "comment": "creators and reference and romanization", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-02-13T15:41:53Z" }, { "action": "Submit for review", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-21T06:55:53Z" }, { "comment": "Initial revision", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-19T21:07:11Z" }, { "action": "Create", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-19T21:07:11Z" } ] }, { "nameType": "geographic", "transcriptionAccuracy": "accurate", "associationCertainty": "certain", "romanized": "Imar", "attestations": [ { "timePeriod": "akkadian-ur-iii-mesopotamia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/akkadian-ur-iii-mesopotamia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" }, { "timePeriod": "old-babylonian-assyrian-mesopotamia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/old-babylonian-assyrian-mesopotamia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" }, { "timePeriod": "late-bronze-age-anatolia", "timePeriodURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/time-periods/late-bronze-age-anatolia", "confidence": "confident", "confidenceURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/attestation-confidence/confident" } ], "references": [ { "alternateURI": "", "accessURI": "", "citationDetail": "", "citationTypeURI": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/seeFurther", "shortTitle": "Rutz 2013", "bibliographicURI": "http://www.worldcat.org/title/bodies-of-knowledge-in-ancient-mesopotamia-the-diviners-of-late-bronze-age-emar-and-their-table-collection/oclc/842965826", "formattedCitation": "Rutz, Matthew. 2013. Bodies of Knowledge: The Diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and Their Tablet Collection. Boston: Brill, pp. 45-48 ", "otherIdentifier": "", "type": "seeFurther" } ], "id": "imar", "end": -1200, "contributors": [], "provenance": "Pleiades", "associationCertaintyURI": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/association-certainty/certain", "start": -2335, "details": "Earliest attestations of Imar come from the EarlyBronze Age archives of Ebla. 2nd millennium attestations are widespread and many: Imar is mentioned in Old Babylonian itineraries, Mari archives, texts from the Old Babylonian palace at Tuttul, an Old Babylonian text from Ḫaradum, the Old Babylonian archive of Alalakh, Assur during the reign of king Shalmaneser I and Middle Assyrian Dūr-Katlimmu.
", "review_state": "published", "description": "An alternative spelling of the name of the city of Emar, as encountered in cuneiform sources.", "transcriptionCompleteness": "complete", "language": "akk", "created": "2016-12-21T06:04:15Z", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092/imar", "creators": [ { "username": "mdurusu", "homepage": null, "name": "Müge Durusu", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/mdurusu" } ], "attested": "", "@type": "Name", "history": [ { "action": "Publish externally", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-03-08T19:29:11Z" }, { "action": "Submit for review", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-21T06:52:09Z" }, { "comment": "Edited", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-21T06:49:50Z" }, { "comment": "Edited", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-21T06:47:16Z" }, { "comment": "Initial revision", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-21T06:04:15Z" }, { "action": "Create", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-21T06:04:15Z" } ] } ], "id": "279984092", "subject": [ "ANE" ], "title": "Emar", "provenance": "Pleiades", "placeTypeURIs": [ "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/place-types/settlement", "https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/place-types/archaeological-site" ], "details": "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.
", "@context": { "snippet": "dcterms:abstract", "rights": "dcterms:rights", "description": "dcterms:description", "title": "dcterms:title", "dcterms": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/", "subject": "dcterms:subject", "uri": "@id", "created": "dcterms:created" }, "review_state": "published", "type": "FeatureCollection", "description": "An important Bronze Age trading center in northern Syria. The site is known today as Tell Meskene.", "reprPoint": [ 38.11179882347007, 35.987310155382374 ], "placeTypes": [ "settlement", "archaeological-site" ], "bbox": [ 38.1079405, 35.9857178, 38.1137987, 35.9884763 ], "connectsWith": [ "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668208" ], "rights": "Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).", "created": "2016-12-19T19:32:01Z", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/279984092", "creators": [ { "username": "gmckee", "homepage": null, "name": "Gabriel Mckee", "uri": "https://pleiades.stoa.org/author/gmckee" } ], "@type": "Place", "history": [ { "comment": "edit details", "modifiedBy": "jbecker", "modified": "2023-03-29T16:40:44Z" }, { "action": "Publish externally", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-03-08T19:29:08Z" }, { "comment": "description: added modern name", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2017-02-09T16:13:41Z" }, { "comment": "merging editorial additions", "modifiedBy": "thomase", "modified": "2016-12-21T11:18:25Z" }, { "comment": "Baseline created", "modifiedBy": "mdurusu", "modified": "2016-12-19T19:32:00Z" }, { "comment": "added reference", "modifiedBy": "jbecker", "modified": "2016-12-19T17:52:01Z" }, { "action": "Submit for review", "modifiedBy": "gmckee", "modified": "2016-12-19T15:17:21Z" }, { "comment": "Initial revision", "modifiedBy": "gmckee", "modified": "2016-12-19T15:06:50Z" }, { "action": "Create", "modifiedBy": "gmckee", "modified": "2016-12-19T15:06:41Z" } ] }