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Upper Chambers

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Name given by Austen Henry Layard to the area excavated south of the south wall of the Northwest palace, because it was at "a noticeably higher level, on a platform of mud-brick," which he thought was part of "an upper floor."

Romanized Name(s):
Upper Chambers

Name as attested:

Language:
English

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

nineteenth century of the common era (confident)
twentieth century of the common era (confident)
twenty-first century of the common era (confident)

References:

See Further:

Oates 2004 70

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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