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- Urkesh, also transliterated Urkish (Akkadian: 𒌨𒆧𒆠 UR.KIŠKI, 𒌨𒋙𒀭𒄲𒆠 UR.KEŠ3KI; modern Tell Mozan; Arabic: تل موزان), is a tell, or settlement mound...
- southeastern Anatolia. The Hurrians were first do****ented in the city of Urkesh, where they built their first kingdom. Their largest and most influential...
- 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. 2300...
- Ur-Kasdim. According to A. S. Issar, Ur Kasdim is identified with the site of Urkesh – the capital of the Hurrian Kingdom, now in northeastern Syria. It is further...
- represent a Hurrian god, possibly Kumarbi or Aštabi, in early inscriptions from Urkesh, but there is also evidence that he was worshiped by the Hurrians under...
- parts of the Empire (Urkesh and Marhashe). A well do****ented case of the latter is that of Naram-Sin's daughter Tar'am-Agade at Urkesh. Records at the Brak...
- 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...
- 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...
- Italian archaeologist, best known for having discovered the ancient city of Urkesh (modern Tell Mozan), capital of the Hurrians, in Syria. Buccellati is a...
- 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...