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Ušnanis

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jan 14, 2025 10:10 AM — History

tags: ANE, Assyrian

Ušnanis is a Quean fortress located on the Cilician plain. In the eighth century BC, perhaps only for a short time, Phrygia controlled the territory in which Ušnanis was located. The Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 721-705), after his armies defeated the Phrygian king Midas (= Mitâ of Musku), restored Ušnanis to Que, which was then a province of the Assyrian Empire.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/605795336

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.1359885184, 35.0714001733

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ušnanis (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)

Ušnanis makes connections with:

Ušnanis located near Harrua (1000 BC - 540 BC)
Less than certain: Ušnanis located near Kilikiai Pylai (1000 BC - 540 BC)
Ušnanis part of (administrative) Phrygia (kingdom) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
Ušnanis part of (administrative) Que (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
Ušnanis part of (administrative) Que (province) (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ušnanis located near Qumasi (1000 BC - 540 BC)
Less than certain: Ušnanis located near Taurus (mountain range) (1000 BC - 540 BC)

Ušnanis receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, fort, tower (deprecated)

References:

See Further:

Bagg, RGTC 7/1 272

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The location of Ušnanis is presently unknown. From the inscriptions of Sargon II, it is certain that it was near another Quean fortress (Harrua), a place that was also taken away from Que by the Phrygians. One text of that Assyrian king mentions Ušnanis and Harrua together with a third fortress: Qumasi.

With regard to Harrua, E. Forrer (1920) and P. Naster (1938) tentatively identified it with classical Seleucia ad Calycadnum/Hyria (modern Silifke), in Cilicia Tracheia. That proposed location, however, is well outside the territorial reach of Que (as already noted, e.g., by A. Bagg [2007]) and, therefore, one must look for a location a bit closer to Que (Cilicia Pedias), perhaps near the Cilician Gates. Ušnanis is generally thought to have been near Harrua and, thus, possibly also located near the Cilician Gates.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ušnanis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/605795336> [accessed: 07 March 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/605795336 |title=Places: 605795336 (Ušnanis) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=March 7, 2025 12:48 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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