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Kunulua/Tell Tayinat

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny
Contributors: Clifflena Tiah, Sean Gillies, Carolin Johansson, Elizabeth Robinson, Tom Elliott, Rune Rattenborg
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Last modified Feb 12, 2026 11:29 AM — History
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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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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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Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Clifflena Tiah, Sean Gillies, Carolin Johansson, Elizabeth Robinson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Kunulua/Tell Tayinat: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/913163220> [accessed: 14 July 2026] 

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