Zawiyah
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).
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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Jun 12, 2023 11:50 AM
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History
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Zāwiyah (also Zawiyeh) is a site in the middle Euphrates region in what was part of the ancient kingdom of Suhu. The city was situated on the north bank of the Euphrates, a few kilometers west of Sur Jureh and Gleieh. Like many towns and cities of the ancient kingdom of Suhu, Zāwiyah is now underwater; the area was flooded after the construction of the Haditha dam. The city's ancient name is not known.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/767486703
34.2923015, 42.1739115
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Zawiyah (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Zawiyah (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Zawiyah located near Euphrates (river) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Zawiyah located near Gleieh (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Zawiyah located near Sur Jureh (1000 BC - 720 BC)
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settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
A fragment on an Akkadian inscription of a Suhean ruler, (probably Ninurta-kudurrī-uṣur) was discovered at Zāwiyah. The archaeological site is now inundated by the Hadithah Dam Lake. Satellite imagery is available here.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Zawiyah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/767486703> [accessed: 31 December 2024]
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