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Kunulua/Tell Tayinat

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Elizabeth Robinson, Clifflena Tiah, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, Rune Rattenborg

Last modified Jan 05, 2024 11:10 AM — History

tags: ANE

Tell Tayinat (ancient Kunulua) is a large site (comprising both a sizeable citadel and a sprawling lower town) located at the northern bend of the Orontes River, ca. 30 km southeast of Antakya (ancient Antioch). Strategically located, this fortified city served as a royal capital for various historically-attested Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (ca. 3200-600 B.C.). In 738 B.C., the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III conquered Kunulua (alternately called Kinalua), then the royal city of Syro-Hittite kingdom of Patina, annexed it, and transformed it into an important provincial administrative center. Textual evidence found at the site (e.g., a large tablet inscribed with a copy of Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty) leaves little doubt that Kunulua should be identified as Tell Tayinat.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/913163220

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.2482682211, 36.3759422059

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tell Ta'yinat (3000 BC - 700 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tall Ṭa‘iynāt (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Kalneh (Aramaic, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kinalia (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Kinalua (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Kullania (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Kunalia (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kunalua (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Kunulua (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- تل طعينات (Tall Ṭa‘iynāt: Arabic, modern)
- Tell Tayinat (Turkish, modern)

Kunulua/Tell Tayinat makes connections with:

Kunulua/Tell Tayinat located on Orontes (river) (3000 BC - 540 BC)

Kunulua/Tell Tayinat receives connections from:

Chatal Höyük (Amuq) administrative dependent of Kunulua/Tell Tayinat (1200 BC - 700 BC)

Place type:
findspot, place of finding, settlement

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Related:

Wikidata Q907974: Tell Tayinat

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

In Assyrian sources of the first millennium B.C., the city is referred to as Kinalia (reign of Tiglath-pileser III), Kinalua (reign of Shalmaneser III), Kullania (7th century B.C.), Kunalua (reign of Shalmaneser III), Kunalia (reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Esarhaddon), and Kunulua (reign of Ashurnasirpal II).

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Elizabeth Robinson, Clifflena Tiah, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Kunulua/Tell Tayinat: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/913163220> [accessed: 21 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/913163220 |title=Places: 913163220 (Kunulua/Tell Tayinat) |author=Becker, J., J. Novotny |accessdate=November 21, 2024 9:58 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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