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Dimmašqa

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Name of Damascus in seventh-century-BC cuneiform sources, including royal inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (r. 668-ca. 631 BC) and the Eponym Canon.

Romanized Name(s):
Dimmašqa

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:

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

References:

Citation:

Bagg, RGTC 7/1 60-62

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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