Sam'alla (kingdom)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
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Jan 20, 2022 09:28 PM
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History
Sam'alla (šmʾl; also known as Bīt-Gabbāri and yʾdy) was a small Aramean kingdom/city-state during the first half of the first millennium BC. It is named after its capital city Sam'al (modern Zincirli Höyük).
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- Mār-Gabbāri (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Sam'alla (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- yʾdy (Aramaic, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- šmʾl (Aramaic, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Sam'alla (kingdom) abuts Gurgum (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Sam'alla (kingdom) part of (regional) Hatti (region) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Lutibu part of (administrative) Sam'alla (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Que (kingdom) abuts Sam'alla (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Sam'al capital of Sam'alla (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Sam'alla (province) succeeds Sam'alla (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Tanakun located near Sam'alla (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
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Pleiades
The eighth-century-BC Assyrian king Shalmaneser V (r. 726-722 BC) conquered Sam'alla and established it as the administrative capital of an Assyrian province.
Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Sam'alla (kingdom): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/303882989> [accessed: 26 December 2024]
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