Ba'il-hurri
a Pleiades
name
resource
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Ba'il-hurri, Ba'il-harri, Ba'il-HARri
Akkadian
geographic name
accurate
fragmentary, but reconstructable
Certain
- Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
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Pleiades
The relevant line of the Cyprus Stele of the Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 721-705 BC), col. iv 52, might be read as [i-na? ZAG? KUR?].ba-il-ḪAR-ri KUR-i ("[beside/facing Mount] Ba'il-hurri, a mountain") or as [ina? É? d?].ba-il ḫur-ri KUR-i ("[in the temple of the god Ba'al of Mount Hurri"). Thus, the name, assuming it is one, is either Hurri or Ba'il-hurri (exact reading uncertain). Note that it is possible that ḪAR-ri KUR-i could be interpreted as hurrī šadî “mines” or “mountain ravines.”
The exact reading of the cuneiform sign ḪAR is uncertain. It could be read as either hur or har.