Kish
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified
Dec 18, 2018 12:49 PM
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History
Kish was an ancient city of Sumer located east of Babylon in Mesopotamia. Kish was occupied from the Jemdet Nasr period (ca. 3100 BC) until its abandonment under the Seleucids.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894028
32.5463817, 44.5922959
- OSM Location of Tell Uhaimir/Kish (720 BC - 540 BC)
- OSM Location of Tell Ingharra/Hursagkalama (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Inġarra (Modern Standard Arabic, 2000 BC - 650 BC)
- Kish (750 BC - AD 640)
- Kiš (Akkadian, 6200 BC - 330 BC)
- Kiš (Dialect of Akkadian Assyrian, 6200 BC - 330 BC)
- Tall Antika (2950 BC - 2350 BC)
- Tall Antīka (Modern Standard Arabic, 2950 BC - 1000 BC)
- Tall Inġarra (Modern Standard Arabic, 5500 BC - 2000 BC)
- Tall al Uḥaimir (Old South Arabian, 2000 BC - 1600 BC)
- Tall al-Uḥaimar Kiš (2950 BC - 2350 BC)
- Tall al-Uḥaimir (Modern Standard Arabic, 6200 BC - 540 BC)
- Tall al-Uḥēmir (Arabic, unspecified date range)
- Ḫursagkalama (Akkadian, 2335 BC - 2000 BC)
- None
- Melem-kurukurra-dulla bounds Kish (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Emeteursaga at Kish (2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ekurnizu at Kish (720 BC - 540 BC)
urban area, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 91 F5 Kish
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tell Uhaimir and Ingharra
M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Kish: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894028> [accessed: 16 July 2019]
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