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Gurgumāja

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Ethnic name used to designate a person from Gurgum (city) in royal inscriptions of the Assyrian kings Shalmaneser III (r. 858-824 BC) and Adad-nerari III (r. 809-782 BC).

Romanized Name(s):
Gurgumāja, Gurgumāya

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
ethnic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)

References:

Citation:

Bagg, RGTC 7/1 80-81

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Gurgum is also the name of a Neo-Hittite state. Marqasi is the name of the city in later Assyrian sources.

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