Qatna
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).
Last modified
Mar 05, 2024 11:37 AM
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History
A city in western Syria first settled in the Early Bronze Age III (ca. 2700-2600 BCE). In the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1600 BCE), it became a major trading center and the capital of a regional kingdom. In the Late Bronze Age Qatna the city became a vassal of first the Mitanni Kingdom, then the Neo-Hittite Empire and Egypt. The city's acropolis was abandoned in the Late Bronze Age I, though the surrounding area remained inhabited. It was resettled in the 10th century BCE as part of the Aramaean kingdom of Hamath, but was sacked by the army of Sargon II in 720 and ultimately abandoned in the 6th century BCE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/412342122
34.8346712181, 36.8663053869
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tell al-Mishrifeh (4000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tall al-Mishrifah (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- قطنة (Qaṭna: Modern Standard Arabic)
- قطنا (Qaṭnа̄: Modern Standard Arabic)
- تل المشرفة (Tell al-Mishrifeh: Modern Standard Arabic)
- None
- Royal Hypogeum at Qatna located at Qatna (2335 BC - 1600 BC)
- Royal Palace of Qatna located at Qatna (1600 BC - 1000 BC)
settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Qatna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/412342122> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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