Al-Sabaa wa Arbain
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Sep 03, 2019 09:31 PM
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History
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Al-Sabaa wa Arbain (Saba‘ wa Arba’īn) is a small modern town in northeastern Syria (al-Hasakah Governorate). The settlement sits atop a small mound of ruins (ancient name not known).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/528477900
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A stele of the Neo-Assyrian Adad-nerari III that was used as a boundary stone was discovered there in 1905. The Akkadian inscription records that the king erected the monument in a town called Zabanni. The stele was later re-used and re-inscribed by Nergal-ēriš, one of Adad-nerari III's officials.
Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Al-Sabaa wa Arbain: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/528477900> [accessed: 02 December 2021]
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