Al-Sabaa wa Arbain
a Pleiades
place
resource
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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May 21, 2026 09:04 PM
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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
35.41925145, 40.86880165
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of Saba` wa Arba`in (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Sabā‘a (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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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, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Al-Sabaa wa Arbain: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/528477900> [accessed: 14 June 2026]
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