Padakku/Fadak
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 16, 2023 11:59 AM
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Ancient Padakku/Fadak is an oasis town in the Arabian Peninsula that is idenified with the modern city al-Ḥā’iṭ.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/982176368
25.9786, 40.4668
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Al-Ḥāyiṭ (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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settlement, archaeological site
- See Further:
Padakku (later Fadak) is an oasis town visited by the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, who had a relief and inscription carved on a nearby rock face; the monument was found southwest of the modern city.
Jamie Novotny, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Padakku/Fadak: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/982176368> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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