Qattara?/Karana?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 19, 2023 11:10 AM
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History
Tell al-Rimah, is the site of a settlement inhabited from the third to first millennium BCE that has been identified as the site of either Qattara or Karana.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/356369838
34.7012454149, 43.3342784545
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tell al-Rimah (2950 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tall al-Rimah (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Less than certain: Karana (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 1000 BC)
- Less than certain: qa-aṭ-ṭa-raki (Qattara: Akkadian, 2000 BC - 1000 BC)
- تل الرماح (Tell al-Rimah: Modern Standard Arabic)
- Zamahu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
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settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Qattara?/Karana?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/356369838> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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