Qaryat al-Lak
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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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findspot, place of finding, settlement, settlement-modern
Pleiades
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: 22 November 2024]
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