Giricano
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny, Rune Rattenborg
Creators: Jamie Novotny, Rune Rattenborg
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson
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Last modified
Apr 18, 2023 01:20 PM
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History
Modern Giricano, site of the ancient Dunnu-ša-Uzībiis, is located in the Upper Tigris region of south-eastern Turkey, in the province of Diyarbakir, about 11 km southeast of modern Bismil, ca. 5 km northwest of Ziyaret Tepe, on the north bank of the Tigris River.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/293088342
37.816943, 40.7499095
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Giricano Höyüğü (6200 BC - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Giricano (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Dunnu-ša-Uzībi (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 1000 BC)
- Giricano Höyüğü (Turkish, modern)
- Giricano located near Tigris/Diglitus (river) (6200 BC - Present)
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settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
The mound was excavated between 1999 and 2003; occupation levels from the Chalcolithic period until Middle Assyrian times were uncovered. Fifteen cuneiform tablets (written in the Akkadian language) dating to the reign of the Assyrian king Aššur-bēl-kala of Assyria (1073–1056 BCE) were discovered at Giricano, thus, establishing the city’s ancient name as Dunnu-ša-Uzībi.
Jamie Novotny, Rune Rattenborg, Jeffrey Becker, and Carolin Johansson, 'Giricano: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/293088342> [accessed: 23 December 2024]
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