Hama ( Biblical Hamath, ("Fortress") is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria. Hama was the center of the small Syro-Hittite (1180-800 BC) or Aramean kingdom of Hamath . The city of Hama appears in the Bible as Hamath, in Assyrian texts as Amat/Ham(m)at.
See:
- A.M.T. Moore: The Neolithic of the Levant, Thesis (Ph. D.)-Oxford University, 1978, pp. 304-305
- http://ourancientworld.com/Settlement.aspx?id=248&culture=14
- http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Hama.html