Ašnakkum
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
May 29, 2023 02:28 PM
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History
Town in the Khabur River basin in Northern Syria, now known as Chagar Bazar. First settled in the Neolithic Period, the town appears to have been abandoned during the Early Bronze Age. It was resettled in the Early Dynastic period, becoming an administrative center of the Old Assyrian Empire.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/480215077
36.8755472903, 40.8977296708
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Chagar Bazar (10000 BC - 1600 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tall Shāghir Bāzār (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Aš-na-ki (Ašnakkum: Akkadian, 2000 BC - 1600 BC)
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- Chagar Bazar (English, modern)
- شاغربازار (Chagar Bazar: Modern Standard Arabic)
- تل شاغر بازار (Tall Shāghir Bāzār: Arabic, modern)
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settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Ašnakkum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/480215077> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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