Urakka
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Claudia Horst
Creators: Claudia Horst
Contributors:
Jamie Novotny
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Last modified
Jan 11, 2024 02:54 PM
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History
tags:
ANE
A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources that is likely to be identified as Tell ʿĀmūdā.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/404687441
37.0566221, 40.4626949
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Tell ʿĀmūdā (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Tell ʿĀmūdā (Arabic, modern)
- Urakka (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
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settlement
Some scholars have identified Urakka with Urkiš (Tell Muzān), rather than Tell ʿĀmūdā, but this proposal cannot yet be substantiated by textual or archaeological evidence.
Claudia Horst, and Jamie Novotny, 'Urakka: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/404687441> [accessed: 17 April 2024]
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