Is the Area of Apum-Damascus Mentioned in the Mari Archives?

In 1939 Dossin published a list of several kings and states mentioned in the Mari letters as having economic dealings with Mari. Among the kings in the list were two rulers of a land of Apum. While Dossin assumed that these kings lived in the land of Apum located in northern Mesopotamia, W. F. Albri...

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Autor principal: Pitard, Wayne T. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 1986
En: Bulletin of ASOR
Año: 1986, Volumen: 264, Páginas: 73-77
Acceso en línea: Volltext (JSTOR)
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Sumario:In 1939 Dossin published a list of several kings and states mentioned in the Mari letters as having economic dealings with Mari. Among the kings in the list were two rulers of a land of Apum. While Dossin assumed that these kings lived in the land of Apum located in northern Mesopotamia, W. F. Albright in 1941 proposed that they were rulers of the land of Apum in southern Syria, around the area of Damascus. Albright's proposal has been widely accepted among biblical scholars and historical geographers. However, recently-published Mari letters indicate that the kings listed by Dossin belong to the Mesopotamian Apum rather than the Damascene one. There are, in fact, no known references to the Damascene Apum in the Mari letters.
ISSN:2161-8062
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/1357021