Kavuncu
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 29, 2020 02:50 PM
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History
Kavuncu is a modern settlement situated near Van in the southeast of Turkey. Here a cylindrical stone (probably a column base) with an inscription of the Urartian king Minua, son of Išpuini (9/8th century BCE) was found (CTU I A 5-53 B).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/929709014
38.5124956, 43.4767586
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kavuncu (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Kavuncu part of (regional) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
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findspot, place of finding, settlement-modern
Pleiades
Birgit Christiansen , and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kavuncu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/929709014> [accessed: 27 April 2024]
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