Zalu Ab
a Pleiades
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Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Zalu Ab (also Romanized as Zālū Āb and Zālūāb) is a village in Zalu Ab Rural District, in the Central District of Ravansar County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. Several ancient objects, including a bronze bowl of a Chaldean tribal leader, are reported to have been discovered in this rural Iranian village.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/420860522
34.6304926667, 46.579774
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of زالو آب (Zalu Ab) (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Zalu Ab, Kermanshah (modern) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Zālūl Āb (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- زالوآب (Zālūl Āb: Arabic, modern)
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The bronze bowl mentioned above belonged to the ninth-century B.C. Babylonian ruler Marduk-zākir-šumi I, a contemporary of the well-known Assyrian king Shalmaneser III.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Zalu Ab: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/420860522> [accessed: 22 November 2024]
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