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Marqasāja

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
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Ethnic name used to designate a person from Marqasi (Maraş) in Neo-Assyrian texts dating to the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III (r. 745-727 BC) and Sargon II (r. 721-705 BC).

Marqasāja, Marqasāya


Akkadian

ethnic name

accurate

complete

Certain

  • Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)
  • Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

See Further:

Pleiades