Mila Mergi
a Pleiades
place
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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Jun 12, 2023 11:51 AM
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History
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The mountain now called Mila Mergi was called Ilimeru in Assyrian texts of the 8th century B.C. The identification is provided by an Assyrian rock relief dating to the reign of Tiglath-pileser III. The mountain is located ca. 25 kilometers northwest of Dohuk in northern Iraq.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/649834357
37.00591665, 42.91355
- Representative Locations:
- Representative Location of Mila Mergi after the Helsinki Atlas (modern) accuracy: +/- 4270 meters.
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Mila Mergi (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ilimeru (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Millet Mergi (Arabic, modern)
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mountain, monument
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The identification of Mila Mergi as ancient Ilimeru is provided by an Akkadian inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III; the fifty-four-line inscription and accompanying relief are engraved on the side of the mountain.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Mila Mergi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/649834357> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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