Ubassu

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE

A city/town mentioned in Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions, which state that it was situated between Babylon and Borsippa. It has been tentatively identified as Tell Aswië, a small site north of Borsippa, on the main road to Babylon.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/541822282

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Less than certain: Tell Aswië (Arabic, modern)
- Ubassu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Ubassu makes connections with:

None

Ubassu receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, settlement

References:

See Further:

Zadok 1985 317

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The coordinates/exact location of Tell Aswië remain unpublished.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Ubassu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/541822282> [accessed: 11 March 2025]

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