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Kebili (formerly Babil)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 09, 2023 12:02 PM History
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The small village of Babil (now Kebili) is located about 25 km southwest of Cizre, near the Tigris river, directly on the Turkish-Syrian border. The name of the ancient site whose ruins lay beneath the modern village is not known.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/708232008

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archaeological site, settlement-modern


Fragments of a stele of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II were discovered here.


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Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Kebili (formerly Babil): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/708232008> [accessed: 07 November 2024]

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