Elamites on the Road to Hara(n)
(2014) Ancient Near Eastern Topography and Toponymy: Perspectives and Prospects — Location: Louvain-la-Neuve (27.February.2014)
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- (en) The toponym Hara(n) is attested several times in late Elamite royal correspondence and administrative texts (Neo-Elamite and early Achaemenid documents). The striking similarity of Hara(n) to the Assyrian toponym Harrān let scholars to believe that the Neo-Elamite kings had direct contact with this north-Mesopotamian city and last Assyrian capital. However, the instable political situation in the late Neo-Elamite kingdom made long-distance relationships rather challenging. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the Elamite toponym Hara(n) is philologically and historically identifiable with the Late Assyrian capital Harrān or whether an identification with another Akkadian toponym is more likely in order to make a suggestion for the geographical location of the Elamite city Hara(n).
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Gorris, E., & Van Buylaere, G. (2014). Elamites on the Road to Hara(n). Ancient Near Eastern Topography and Toponymy: Perspectives and Prospects, Louvain-la-Neuve. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/197328