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Mane (ancient city)

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Ancient Syria

Mane was an ancient city in what is today Syria and northern Iraq. Its exact location remains unknown,[1] though it was north of Nineveh.[2][3] During the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC), it was besieged.[4] The chronicle of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3,[5] states of the Battle of Nineveh between Babylonian and Assyrian armies that

"in the month Âbu[broken anchor] the king of Akkad and his army went upstream to Mane, Sahiri and Bali-hu. He plundered them, sacked them extensively and abducted their gods."[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (Routledge, 2013)p. 30
  2. ^ A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (1975)
  3. ^ Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study (Baker Academic, 2002) p. 156.
  4. ^ Mario Liverani (2013). The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy. p. 119.
  5. ^ Chronicle Concerning the Fall of Nineveh at livis.com.
  6. ^ A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (1975)
  7. ^ Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study (Baker Academic, 2002) p. 156.