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Surroundings:

Karkemis South GateA Stele by Suhi I from KarkemishKarkemis, Suhi I SteleYunus Stele (Karkemish)

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, An Nāşirīyah
  • geo:36.787498,38.035831
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=41200

Annotations

The Hittite town of Murmuriga has been tentatively identified with Tell Shiyukh Fawqani1.

See:

  1. Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 177, 186
  2. Johannes Boese, Murmuriga und Nappigu. Zur historischen Topographie am nördlichen syrischen Euphrat vom 15. bis zum 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr.: MDOG 141 (2009), pp. 65-84
  3. Aline Tenu, Assyrians and Aramaeans in the Euphrates Valley viewed from the cemetery of Tell Shiukh Fawqâni (Syria), Syria 2009, vol. 86, pp. 83-96
  4. Peter Pfälzner: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age, in: Originalveröffentlichung in: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (eds. D.T. Potts), Oxford 2012, pp. 770-790 - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/2856/1/Pfaelzner_Levantine%20Kingdoms%202012.pdf

References

  1. Peter Pfälzner 2012, p. 782


Nearby

Tell Shiukh Fawqani

Tell Shiukh Fawqâni necropolis in North Syria.

Tell Jerablus Tahtani (1 km)

Bronze Age remains. Jarablus Tathani.

Tell Jerablus Tahtani (1 km)

Tell Jarablus Tahtani - a multi-period tell.


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