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*Kulummu

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Kulummu is a city (and/or kingdom) in Tabal.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/311078476

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.82365, 34.572513

Locations:

None

Names:

Ethnic Names:
- Kulummāja (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

*Kulummu makes connections with:

*Kulummu part of (regional) Tabālu (region) (720 BC - 540 BC)

*Kulummu receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, region, settlement

References:

See Further:

Bagg, RGTC 7/1 143

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

It is unknown of *Kulummu is a city and/or a kingdom in Tabal. It is mentioned only the Eponym Chronicle for the year 705 BC: "In the eponymy of Nasḫur-Bēl, governor of the city Amedi (705): The ki[ng ...]; against Gurdî, the Kulummian ... [...]. The king was killed (and) the camp of the king of Assyria [...]. Sennacherib [became] ki[ng] in the month Abu (V), on the 12th day."

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, '*Kulummu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/311078476> [accessed: 30 January 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/311078476 |title=Places: 311078476 (*Kulummu) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=January 30, 2025 1:30 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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