Historical place profile

Tell 'Ali

A small site on the left bank of the Lower Zab where an archive of ca. twenty-five Middle Assyrian texts was discovered. The town was situated more or less where travellers from Aššur to the cities Nuzi and Arrapha would have crossed the Lower Zab. Tell 'Ali is identified with ancient Atmannu.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:532748466
Catalogue ID
pleiades:532748466
Place type
archaeological-site, settlement
Coordinates
35.381955, 43.681697
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

A small site on the left bank of the Lower Zab where an archive of ca. twenty-five Middle Assyrian texts was discovered. The town was situated more or less where travellers from Aššur to the cities Nuzi and Arrapha would have crossed the Lower Zab. Tell 'Ali is identified with ancient Atmannu.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Pleiades

Source and reuse

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Research path

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