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Research Article | Sngr/Samḫarû/Sanḫara/Šinʿār and the Implications for Early Kassite History
Sngr/Samḫarû/Sanḫara/Šinʿār and the Implications for Early Kassite History
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Tim Clayden
- University of Oxford, UK -
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- Tim Clayden - University of Oxford, UK - email
Abstract
This is a detailed review (date, context and usage) of the use of the Old Testament toponym Šinʿār = Babylonia and its cognate terms in Akkadian (Samḫarû/Samḫara) in Babylonian and Hittite sources, and Sngr in Egyptian documents. The study demonstrates that the earliest use of the term across the various sources should be linked to the arrival of the Kassite peoples in seventeenth-sixteenth centuries BCE on the middle-Euphrates from where they entered Babylonia – the evidence for which is reviewed including a possible link between the Kassite royal name ‘Agum’ and a late third-millennium BCE Eblaite deity.
Submitted: Aug. 6, 2024 | Accepted: Oct. 21, 2024 | Published Dec. 19, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords Middle Euphrates • Early-Kassite history • New Kingdom • Shinar
Copyright © 2024 Tim Clayden. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sngr/Samḫarû/Sanḫara/Šinʿār and the Implications for Early Kassite History
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This is a detailed review (date, context and usage) of the use of the Old Testament toponym Šinʿār = Babylonia and its cognate terms in Akkadian (Samḫarû/Samḫara) in Babylonian and Hittite sources, and Sngr in Egyptian documents. The study demonstrates that the earliest use of the term across the various sources should be linked to the arrival of the Kassite peoples in seventeenth-sixteenth centuries BCE on the middle-Euphrates from where they entered Babylonia – the evidence for which is reviewed including a possible link between the Kassite royal name ‘Agum’ and a late third-millennium BCE Eblaite deity.
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Volume 1 | Nuova serie
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This is a detailed review (date, context and usage) of the use of the Old Testament toponym Šinʿār = Babylonia and its cognate terms in Akkadian (Samḫarû/Samḫara) in Babylonian and Hittite sources, and Sngr in Egyptian documents. The study demonstrates that the earliest use of the term across the various sources should be linked to the arrival of the Kassite peoples in seventeenth-sixteenth centuries BCE on the middle-Euphrates from where they entered Babylonia – the evidence for which is reviewed including a possible link between the Kassite royal name ‘Agum’ and a late third-millennium BCE Eblaite deity. |
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