Raṣappa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Jan 28, 2018 11:00 AM
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History
tags:
ANE
A land (and later an Assyrian province) mentioned in first-millennium B.C. Akkadian texts from Assyria and Suhu. Scholars generally believe that this land/province is located east of the Habur River, south of Jebel Singar, and northeast of the land Bit-Halupê.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/427568541
35.795538, 41.487122
- Representative Locations:
- Representative centerpoint of Raṣappa (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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province, diocese, nome (deprecated), region
Pleiades
Assyrian and Suhean texts also mention a city called Raṣappa, which may have been the capital/principal administrative center of the land/province of the same name.
Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Raṣappa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/427568541> [accessed: 15 October 2024]
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