Altaqû

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Andrea Squitieri

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Claudia Horst

Last modified Jan 02, 2018 02:41 PM — History

tags: ANE

A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources, Altaqû is equated with biblical Elteqeh and modern Tel aš-Šallāf.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/498102722

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.4519221, 34.4498766

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tel aš-Šallāf (1200 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Altaqû (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Elteqēh (Ancient Hebrew, 1200 BC - 550 BC)
- Tel aš-Šallāf (Arabic, AD 1918 - AD 2000)

Altaqû makes connections with:

Altaqû part of (regional) Philistia (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)

Altaqû receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

See Also:

Wikipedia (English) Ge'alya

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Andrea Squitieri, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, and Claudia Horst, 'Altaqû: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/498102722> [accessed: 18 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/498102722 |title=Places: 498102722 (Altaqû) |author=Squitieri, A. |accessdate=April 18, 2025 6:56 am |publisher=Pleiades}}