Bāṣ
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Jan 17, 2018 10:01 PM
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History
tags:
ANE
The unlocated Babylonian city is mentioned in cuneiform documents of the second and first millennia B.C. Information provided the texts seem to indicate that Baṣ, whose name might derive from the Akkadian word for sand, might be located somewhere near Sippar, perhaps close to the Euphrates River.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/92607494
33.0595850756, 44.2549811484
- None
- Uncertain: Bāṣ located near Euphrates (river) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Bāṣ located near Sippar (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Edurgina located at Bāṣ (720 BC - 540 BC)
unlocated, settlement
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Pleiades
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Bāṣ: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/92607494> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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