Qaryat al-Lak
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Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Qaryat al-Lak (formerly called Tulul al-Lak) is a small village in northern Iraq that is located between the Assyrian cities Nimrud and Mosul. The modern village is built on top of the ruin mound. The ancient name of the settlement is not known.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/741318296
36.2987515, 43.2634315
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of Qaryat al Lak (720 BC - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Tulūl al-Lak (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Qaryat al-Lak (Arabic, modern)
- Tulul al-Lak (Arabic, modern)
- تلول اللك (Tulūl al-Lak: Arabic, modern)
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Austen Henry Layard discovered inscribed bricks "bearing the name of the Kouyunjik-king" at Tulul al-Lak. The "Kouyunjik-king" is probably to be identified with the 7th-century B.C. Assyrian king Sennacherib.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Qaryat al-Lak: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/741318296> [accessed: 27 December 2024]
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