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Duranki

a Pleiades name resource

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Duranki ("Bond of Heaven and Underworld") is a well-attested and commonly used by-name of Nippur. It is first used in the Early Dynastic Period.

Romanized Name(s):
Duranki

Name as attested:

Language:
Sumerian

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:

3rd millennium BC (3000-2000 BCE) (confident)
2nd Millennium BCE (2000-1000 BCE) (confident)
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
Achaemenid Middle East (540–330 BC) (confident)
Hellenistic Central Asia (confident)

References:

See Further:

George 1992 261-262

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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