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Humē

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Aug 22, 2020 11:02 AM — History

tags: ANE, Assyrian, Babylonian

A country mentioned in Neo- and Late-Babylonian texts that roughly corresponds to Que (kingdom and province) and Cilicia Pedias ("Flat Cilicia").

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/653377581

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.9303120368, 35.4111353467

Locations:

Representative location of Humē (Cilicia Pedias) (720 BC - 540 BC)

Names:

Humē (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Humē makes connections with:

Humē same as Cilicia Pedias (720 BC - 540 BC)

Humē receives connections from:

Uncertain: Adana/Antiochia ad Sarum capital of Humē (720 BC - 540 BC)

Place type:
region

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The Neo-Babylonia king Nabonidus states that 2,850 men from the land Humē were taken back to Babylon, where they performed corvée by carrying bricks.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Humē: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/653377581> [accessed: 28 October 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/653377581 |title=Places: 653377581 (Humē) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=October 28, 2020 2:32 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Humē