Representative location of Kumar
a Pleiades
location
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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ANE,
Babylonian
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{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 44.415448, 32.532802 ] }
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representative
- Old Babylonian/Assyrian Mesopotamia (2000–1600 BC) (confident)
- Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC) (confident)
- Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)
- Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
- Achaemenid Middle East (540–330 BC) (confident)
- Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident)
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Pleiades
The representative location of Kumar is based on George 1992: 24 fig. 4. Due to the shifting course of the Arahtu River (modern Šaṭṭ al-Ḥillah), much of this western district of Babylon is now on the east side of the river; in antiquity it would have been on the western bank.