Pitru
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Claudia Horst Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Claudia Horst Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 21, 2023 08:13 AM
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History
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ANE
A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources; it is generally identified with Aušur ar-Rafi'a (Tell Aušerīya).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/771224407
36.6575505, 38.07126315
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of 'Awshariyah (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Tall ‘Aushariyah (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- 'Awshariyah (Arabic, modern)
- Ana-Aššur-utēr-aṣbat (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Aušeriya (Arabic, modern)
- Aušur ar-Rafi'a (Arabic, modern)
- Pitru (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- تل عوشرية (Tall ‘Aushariyah: Arabic, modern)
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settlement, archaeological site, settlement-modern
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Pleiades
The settlement is thought to have been established by Tiglath-Pileser I ca. 1100 B.C.
Claudia Horst, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Pitru: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/771224407> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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