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Za'ini

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).

Last modified Aug 06, 2020 10:23 AM — History

tags: ANE, Assyrian

Za'ini is a (walled?) city in Gurgum that is mentioned in inscriptions of the eighth-century-BC Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 721-705 BC). Its current location is unknown.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794026197

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.5812744, 36.927509

Locations:

None

Names:

Za'ini (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Za'ini makes connections with:

Za'ini part of (administrative) Gurgum (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
Za'ini part of (administrative) Marqasi (province) (720 BC - 540 BC)

Za'ini receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, settlement

References:

Citation:

Bagg, RGTC 7/1 275

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Za'ini: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794026197> [accessed: 18 September 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794026197 |title=Places: 794026197 (Za'ini) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=September 18, 2020 4:19 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Za'ini