Sikani
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Claudia Horst
Creators: Claudia Horst
Contributors:
Jamie Novotny
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 31, 2018 10:42 AM
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History
tags:
ANE
A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources that is generally identified with Tell Fekheriye (Tell Faḫārīya).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/572048102
36.8425922, 40.0709816
- OSM location of Tell Fekheriye (2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Sikāni (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Tell Fekheriye (Arabic, modern)
- None
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None
settlement
In earlier cuneiform sources the name appears as Sigan, Uššukani, Waššukkanni, and Wašukana. The name is skn in Aramaic sources.
Claudia Horst, and Jamie Novotny, 'Sikani: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/572048102> [accessed: 06 April 2020]
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