*Galʾadi
a Pleiades
name
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Claudia Horst
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History
tags:
ANE
*Galʾadi
Akkadian
geographic name
accurate
fragmentary, but reconstructable
Certain
- Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)
- See Further:
Pleiades
The name appears in an inscription of the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser. The city's name is damaged and generally read/restored as URU.ga-al-ʾa-a-[di].