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Marqasu

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: B. Siewert-Mayer, W. Röllig, H. Kopp
Contributors: Sean Gillies, Francis Deblauwe, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, Eric Kansa
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Last modified Mar 16, 2021 10:27 PM — History
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Marqasi, the capital of Gurgum (kingdom), is the name of modern Maraş in Akkadian sources, including Neo-Assyrian texts from the eighth and seventh century BC. A place name from the TAVO Index (Vol. 2, p. 1054)

Marqasu, Marqasi, Marqasa


Akkadian

geographic name

accurate

complete

Certain

  • Early Iron Age Anatolia (1200–700 BC) (confident)
  • Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)
  • Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
  • Achaemenid Middle East (540–330 BC) (confident)

TAVO Index

GANE OBJECT 38738