Humē
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Aug 22, 2020 11:02 AM
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/653377581
36.9303120368, 35.4111353467
- Representative location of Humē (Cilicia Pedias) (720 BC - 540 BC)
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- Humē (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Humē same as Cilicia Pedias (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Uncertain: Adana/Antiochia ad Sarum capital of Humē (720 BC - 540 BC)
region
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Pleiades
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.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Humē: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/653377581> [accessed: 29 July 2021]
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