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Burnt Palace

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

The ancient name of the building is not known. In the 1950s, British excavators dubbed this AssyrianPalace the Burnt Palace since its final, Assyrian building phase (the so-called “ivory level”) was destroyed by fire in 612 BC.

Romanized Name(s):
Burnt Palace

Name as attested:

Language:
English

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:

twentieth century of the common era (confident)
twenty-first century of the common era (confident)

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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