Urkesh, also transliterated Urkish (Akkadian: ๐จ๐ง๐ UR.KIล KI, ๐จ๐๐ญ๐ฒ๐ UR.KEล 3KI; modern Tell Mozan; Arabic: ุชู ู
ูุฒุงู), is a tell, or settlement mound...
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southeastern Anatolia. The Hurrians were first documented in the city of Urkesh, where they built their first kingdom. Their largest and most influential...
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The oldest possible reference to him occurs in a royal inscription from Urkesh from either the Akkadian or Ur III period, though the correct reading of...
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Ur of the Chaldees (section Urkesh)
Ur-Kasdim. According to A. S. Issar, Ur Kasdim is identified with the site of Urkesh โ the capital of the Hurrian Kingdom, now in northeastern Syria. It is further...
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represent a Hurrian god, possibly Kumarbi or Aลกtabi, in early inscriptions from Urkesh, but there is also evidence that he was worshiped by the Hurrians under...
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Hurrians were in the region as of the late 3rd millennium BC. A king of Urkesh with a Hurrian name, Tupkish, was found on a clay sealing dated c.โ2300...
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parts of the Empire (Urkesh and Marhashe). A well documented case of the latter is that of Naram-Sin's daughter Tar'am-Agade at Urkesh. Records at the Brak...
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may mean: Urkers dialect, the dialect spoken in Urk in the Netherlands Urkesh, a city at the base of the Taurus Mountains in what is now northern Syria...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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the control of Hurrian state of Mitanni. Hurrian kings of Urkesh took the title "King of Urkesh and Nawar" in the third millennium BC; although there is...
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Italian archaeologist, best known for having discovered the ancient city of Urkesh (modern Tell Mozan), capital of the Hurrians, in Syria. Buccellati is a...
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al-'Ubaid) Akshak Akkad (ordered from north to south) Urfa Shanidar cave Urkesh (Urkish) (Tell Mozan) Tell Leilan (Shekhna, Shubat-Enlil) Tell Halaf Tell...
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controversial. Duchesne-Guillemin's reconstruction may be heard at the Urkesh webpage, though this is only one of at least five "rival decipherments of...
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of this hymn at Buccellati, Giorgio, ed. (2003). "Music in the Urkesh palace". urkesh.org. Popley 1921. "Indian music โ music in India โ Indian music...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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Dilmun Magan Nubia Berbers Akkad Assyria Babylonia Qatna Amurru Yamhad Urkesh Mitanni Hittites Phrygians Ugarit Canaan Phoenicia Alashiya Arameans Israel...
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peacekeeping forces and private hospitals send volunteer medical teams. Urkesh Forever Eastern European country, and a former member of the USSR. A pivotal...
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Dilmun Magan Nubia Berbers Akkad Assyria Babylonia Qatna Amurru Yamhad Urkesh Mitanni Hittites Phrygians Ugarit Canaan Phoenicia Alashiya Arameans Israel...
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honeymoon in 1955. He performed an appendectomy on a member of the fictional Urkesh royalty. The Backyardigans episode "Le Master of Disguise" features the...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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governor of Tutub, and a Ukin-Ulmash. Excavations at Tell Mozan (ancient Urkesh) brought to light a sealing of Tar'am-Agade, a previously unknown daughter...
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Dilmun Magan Nubia Berbers Akkad Assyria Babylonia Qatna Amurru Yamhad Urkesh Mitanni Hittites Phrygians Ugarit Canaan Phoenicia Alashiya Arameans Israel...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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those estimated for Mari (50,000); Uruk and Umma (40,000); Memphis, Ebla, Urkesh, and Shuruppak (30,000) (p. 28). Girsu (Telloh), the later capital of the...
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civilization Tell Halaf Chagar Bazar Hamoukar Jericho Byblos Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig...
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of uncertain character. He is attested in the earliest inscriptions from Urkesh, as well as in texts from other Hurrian settlements and Ugarit. He was also...
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