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Kummuhu

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: B. Siewert-Mayer, W. Röllig, H. Kopp

Contributors: Jamie Novotny, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Name of a country in eastern Anatolia whose capital city has the same name and is identified with classical Samosata and modern Samsat. A place name from the TAVO Index (Vol. 2, p. 964)

Romanized Name(s):
Kummuhu, Kummukhu, Kummuha, Kummuhi

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)
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
Achaemenid Middle East (540–330 BC) (confident)

References:

Citation:

Initial Provenance:
TAVO Index

Details:

GANE OBJECT 35513

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