Mosul/‘Mespila’?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified
Dec 27, 2020 01:22 PM
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History
An ancient city located across the Tigris river from the site of Nineveh. Modern Mosul in Iraq.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874609
36.335572, 43.13713
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 31475 (550 BC - AD 640)
- Mosul/‘Mespila’? connection Tigris/Diglitus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Arsham connection Mosul/‘Mespila’? (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 F4 Mosul/‘Mespila’?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Mosul, IRQ
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Mosul/‘Mespila’?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874609> [accessed: 04 October 2023]
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