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Qaryat al-Lak

a Pleiades place resource

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Last modified Jan 11, 2024 05:33 PM History
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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.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/741318296

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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.


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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: 22 November 2024]

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