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Ṣūrāja

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Ethnic name used to designate a person from Tyre in Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions.

Romanized Name(s):
Ṣūrāja, Ṣūrāya

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
ethnic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Neolithic Period in the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 10,000-3,300 BC) (confident)
Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)

References:

Citation:

Bagg, RGTC 7/1 235-237

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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