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Yalçınkaya

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg

Contributors: Birgit Christiansen , Tom Elliott

Last modified Jan 23, 2024 03:19 PM — History

tags: ANE, Cuneiform

Yalçınkaya is a modern settlement about 8km to the south of Patnos in the Ağrı province in eastern Turkey. In the courtyard of Kızılkaya Church (today Yalçınkaya) a stele with an inscription of the Urartian king Minua (9th / 8th century BCE) was found.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/717571973

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
39.1770325, 42.84830285

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Yalçınkaya (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Yalçınkaya (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Yalçınkaya makes connections with:

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Yalçınkaya receives connections from:

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Place type:
findspot, place of finding, settlement-modern

References:

Evidence:

eCUT Minua, son of Išpuini A 05-077 (Q006975)

See Further:

Salvini 2008 page 255

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg, Birgit Christiansen , and Tom Elliott, 'Yalçınkaya: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/717571973> [accessed: 02 May 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/717571973 |title=Places: 717571973 (Yalçınkaya) |author=Johansson, C., R. Rattenborg |accessdate=May 2, 2024 8:40 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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