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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42.4500571807
Qattara?/Karana?
تل الرماح
Zamahu
Karana, Karanā, Karanâ
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Pleiades
Bryce 2016 82, 91, 104, 123
Oates 1964
Charpin 1987
Saggs 1968
TGN 7032687: Tell al-Rimah (archaeological site)
Langlois 2017
Wikipedia (English) Tell al-Rimah
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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Qattara?/Karana?
Our present, modern era. [[1700, 2100]]
Modern (AD 1700-Present)
ME [[-720,-540]]
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC)
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Qattara
-1000
Pleiades
The second millennium BCE as defined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_millennium_BC [[-2000, -1000]]
2nd Millennium BCE (2000-1000 BCE)
-2000
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Charpin 1987 page 125
Qatara
Qattara
Qaṭṭara
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Polygon representing the location of Tell al-Rimah, derived from an Open Street Map way.
-540
OpenStreetMap (Way 499377166, version 3, osm:changeset=74487072, 2019-09-15T02:29:46Z)
Mesopotamia [[-2950,-2350]]
Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (2950–2350 BC)
Mesopotamia [[-2000,-1600]]
Old Babylonian/Assyrian Mesopotamia (2000–1600 BC)
Akkadian—Neo-Sumerian Mesopotamia [[-2335,-2000]]
Akkadian-Ur III Mesopotamia (2335–2000 BC)
Middle Assyrian/Middle Babylonian/Kassite Mesopotamia, LBA-Early Iron Age Mesopotamia, incl. Sea Peoples [[-1600,-1000]]
Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC)
-2950
OSM location of Tell al-Rimah
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Karana
-1000
Pleiades
-2000
Langlois 2017 pages 29-31
Karana
Karanâ
Karanā
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Tell al-Rimah
2100
Pleiades
1700
تل الرماح
British School of Archaeology in Iraq 1982 page 86
Tell al-Rimāḥ
Tell al-Rimah
Equivalent to "inhabited place" as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: General term for places or areas occupied, modified, or planned to be inhabited by communities of human populations and that contain enough societal functions to be relatively self-sufficient. They are characterized by inhabitants living in neighboring sets of living quarters and by the place having a proper name or a locally recognized status.
settlement
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ANE
Cuneiform
Pleiades
CIGS location of Tall al-Rimah
Van Lerberghe 2009
Hameeuw 2015
Anonymous 1989 page 251 map 1, 252
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Zamahu
-540
Pleiades
-720
Charpin 1987 page 125
Zamahu