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Šuman

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

Name of Šuanna in land sales and other documents from the Neo- and Late Babylonian periods, as well as in some copies of Tintir = Babylon Tablet V.

Romanized Name(s):
Šuman, Šumanu, Šumannu

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Achaemenid Middle East (540–330 BC) (confident)
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident)

References:

See Further:

George 1992 374–375

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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