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Gods from north‐eastern and north‐western Arabia in cuneiform texts from the First Sealand Dynasty, and a cuneiform inscription from Tell en‐Naṣbeh, c .1500 BC
Author(s) -
Dalley Stephanie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
arabian archaeology and epigraphy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.384
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1600-0471
pISSN - 0905-7196
DOI - 10.1111/aae.12005
Subject(s) - inscribed figure , cuneiform , reign , ancient history , assyria , bronze , history , archaeology , art , geometry , mathematics , politics , political science , law
A cuneiform archive in the Schøyen collection dated around 1500 BC , mainly in the reign of Ayadaragalama, a king of the First Sealand Dynasty in Babylonia, was published in 2009. The claim of that king to be ‘king of the world’ is assessed, with implications of finding an abbreviated version of his name inscribed on a broken bronze circlet from Tell en‐Naṣbeh in Palestine. Use of two divine names Anzak and Yau in personal names in the archive may be related to contacts between the Sealand king and Dilmun/Bahrain on the one hand, and ancient Midian on the other.