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Til-garimmu

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Name of a fortified city in Kammanu (on the border of Tabal) mentioned in Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions of the ninth, eighth, and seventh centuries BC (reigns of Shalmaneser III, Sargon II, and Sennacherib).

Romanized Name(s):
Til-garimmu, Til-garimme

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Less certain

Temporal attestations:

Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Til-garimmu is usually identified with modern Gürün, biblical Tōgarmā, classical Gauraene/Gauraina, Old Assyrian Tergarama, Hittite Takarama, and Luwian Lakarma/Lukarma. Note that no pre-Roman remains have been discovered at Gürün so it is possible that Til-garimmu might not have been located at there. Akçadaǧ, ca. 30 km west of Malatya, has been tentatively suggested as an alternate location.

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