Gurgume
a Pleiades
name
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
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History
Name of Maraş in royal inscriptions of the ninth-century-BC Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (r. 858-824 BC).
Gurgume
Akkadian
geographic name
accurate
complete
Certain
- Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)
- Citation:
Pleiades
Gurgum is also the name of a Neo-Hittite state. Maraqasi is the name of the city in later Assyrian sources.