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Kundu/Kyinda

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: S. Mitchell

Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Oct 27, 2020 04:48 AM — History

Kundu is mentioned in Akkadian royal inscriptions of the seventh-century-BC Assyrian king Esarhaddon. In Classical times, Strabo describes Kyinda as a fortress where Macedonian kings deposited treasure. Eumenes reportedly captured the treasure when he revolted against Antigonus. The site is now unlocated.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/652350

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.0517324222, 35.279112075

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Kundu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Κύινδα (Kyinda: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)

Kundu/Kyinda makes connections with:

Kundu/Kyinda located near Mersin-Yumuktepe (unspecified date range)
Less than certain: Kundu/Kyinda part of (administrative) Que (province) (720 BC - 540 BC)
Kundu/Kyinda located near Sissû (720 BC - 540 BC)

Kundu/Kyinda receives connections from:

Uncertain: Anavarza Kalesi same as Kundu/Kyinda (unspecified date range)
Uncertain: Tırmıl Tepe Höyüğü same as Kundu/Kyinda (unspecified date range)

Place type:
unlocated, fort, tower (deprecated)

References:

Evidence:

Str. (Meineke: Perseus) 14.5.10

See Further:

Related:

Wikidata Q5199213: Cyinda

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 66 Kyinda

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Macedonian fortress above Anchiale. Two locations have been tentatively suggested for Kundu (classical Kyinda): (1) modern Anavarza, ca. twenty km southeast of Kozan (= Sissû), and (2) modern Tirmil Tepe, ca. two km northeast of Mersin. The former seems more plausible given that Kundu and Sissû mentioned together in Esarhaddon's inscriptions, although this cannot be proven with certainty. Note that Anavarza is generally associated with classical Anazarbos/Caesarea/Ioustin(ian)oupolis. Kundu is not in the vicinity of Sidon, as suggested by W. Mayer in 1995.

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Suggested citation:
S. Mitchell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kundu/Kyinda: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/652350> [accessed: 21 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/652350 |title=Places: 652350 (Kundu/Kyinda) |author=Mitchell, S. |accessdate=November 21, 2024 9:38 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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