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Sirara

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Sirara is a mountain range in the Levant that is to be identified with Mount Hermon (biblical ḥermôn; modern Gebal aš-Šaiḫ; amorite śᵉnir), as well as the southern part of Anti-Lebanon mountains (modern Gebal aš-Šarqīf). Sirara is mentioned in Assyrian royal inscriptions composed in the reigns of Sennacherib. Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal.

Romanized Name(s):
Sirara

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 7/1 221-222

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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