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Murūa

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Name of Meroe in a royal inscription of the eighth-century-BC Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III (r. 745-727).

Romanized Name(s):
Murūa

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic 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 7/1 177-178

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Possibly identical with Mūru, an unwalled city in Bīt-Agūsi.

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