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Tel Afar/Ad Pontem?

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jan 09, 2026 10:16 AM — History
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 E4 Tel Afar/Ad Pontem?

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874720

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    • Less than certain: Adpontem (Ad Pontem: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
    • Tal Afar (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
    • تَلْعَفَر (Talʿafar: Modern Standard Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
    • Tell Aʿfer (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
    None

settlement, settlement-modern

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 E4 Tel Afar/Ad Pontem?

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tel Afar, IRQ


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M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Tel Afar/Ad Pontem?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874720> [accessed: 18 May 2026] 

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