“The Kingdom and Period of Khana”
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 270 (May), 43-61.
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The present paper, included into the proceedings of a conference held at Chicago (by ASOR) in November 1985, presents some notes about the Syrian kingdom of Khana.
First of all, he recalls how “before the discovery of Mari, the tablets from Khana were the only cuneiform tablets known to Assyriologists” (p. 43); afterwards, he focuses on recent excavations at Terqa, leading to the discovery of important information about the Late Old Babylonian period; he also stresses the importance of Mari and Terqa as subsequent capitals of the kingdom of Khana, trying to reconstruct through the texts the historical construct of this geographical and political entity.
The paper develops through five sections, focusing on the Khana’s tablets, its region and kingdom, its kings, territory and population.
Appendix 1 adds some unpublished data, while Appendix 2 provides useful concordances between GC numbers [i.e. Buccellati, G. (ed.) 1984, Graphemic Categorization, Malibu, CA: Undena; see GC] and publications.
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