Arsham
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Ryan Horne
Creators: Ryan Horne
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Dec 27, 2020 02:22 PM
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History
An ancient fortress located somewhere between Mosul and modern Zakho; its precise location is unknown today.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/641775077
36.335572, 43.13713
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- Less than certain: Ἄρσαμον (Arsamon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Arsham connection Mosul/‘Mespila’? (unspecified date range)
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unlocated, fort, tower (deprecated)
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Pleiades
This location is probably the same as the Arsamos described by Josephus. See Retsö, Jan. 2005. The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads. London: Routledge, 414.
Ryan Horne, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Arsham: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/641775077> [accessed: 17 December 2024]
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