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Kissik

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jan 11, 2018 10:57 AM — History

tags: ANE

City in Bit-Yakin. The Neo-Babylonian king (re)built the temple Eamaškuga, the temple of the goddess Ningal. The identification of Tell al-Lahm with Kissik is based on the discovery of an inscribed clay cylinder of Nabonidus that mentions work at Kissik.

Romanized Name(s):
Kissik

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

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:

Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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