Tunip

35.286944444444 36.397777777778Coordinates: 35 ° 17 ′ 13 ″ N , 36 ° 23 ′ 52 ″ E

Tunip

Tunip ( ancient Egyptian Tenep ) is a Syrian city, which among other things from the place name list of Amenophis III. ( Temple of Soleb ) as well as the Amarna letters . It was between Kadesh and Aleppo . The citizens sent a letter to the Egyptian pharaoh (EA 59), in which they help against the advancing Amurru Rulers Aziru asked how the ruler of Byblos and Nuhašše , and with the same lack of success. The city is also mentioned several times in the Aziru's letters (EA 161, 165-167). It was finally conquered by Aziru (EA 161).

location

J.-C. Courtois, Horst Klengel and Y. Goren et al. want to identify them with Tell 'Asharneh on the Orontes northwest of Hama .

literature

Wolfgang Helck : The situation of the city of Tunip. In: Ugarit research. No. 5, 1973, pp. 286-288, ISSN 0342-2356 .

Individual evidence

↑ J.-C. Courtois: Prospection archeologique dans la moyenne vallee de l'Oronte (El Ghab et Er Roujd-Syrie du nord-ouest). In: Syria. No. 50, 1973, pp. 53-99.
^ H. Klengel: Tunip and other problems of the historical geography of central Syria. In: K. van Lerberghe, A. Schoors (ed.): Immigration and Emigration within the Ancient Near East (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. 65). Peeters, Leuven 1995, pp. 125-134.
^ Y. Goren, I. Finkelstein, N. Na'aman: The expansion of the kingdom of Amurru according to the petrographic investigations of the Amarna tablets. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. (BASOR) 329, 2003, p. 1.

[1] J.-C. Courtois: Prospection archeologique dans la moyenne vallee de l'Oronte (El Ghab et Er Roujd-Syrie du nord-ouest). In: Syria. No. 50, 1973, pp. 53-99.

[2] H. Klengel: Tunip and other problems of the historical geography of central Syria. In: K. van Lerberghe, A. Schoors (ed.): Immigration and Emigration within the Ancient Near East (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. 65). Peeters, Leuven 1995, pp. 125-134.

[3] Y. Goren, I. Finkelstein, N. Na'aman: The expansion of the kingdom of Amurru according to the petrographic investigations of the Amarna tablets. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. (BASOR) 329, 2003, p. 1.