Tikunani Prism
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tikunani-prism-312-5202940
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Tikunani Prism
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The Tikunani Prism is a clay artifact with an Akkadian cuneiform inscription listing the names of 438 Habiru soldiers of King Tunip-Teššup of Tikunani. This king was a contemporary of King Hattusili I of the Hittites. The discovery of this text generated much excitement, for it provided much-needed fresh evidence about the nature of the Habiru and their possible connection to the Biblical Hebrews. However, the majority of Tunip-Tessup's Habiru soldiers recorded in the text had Hurrian names that
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Small city-state in Mesopotamia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikunani_Prism
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2024-03-29T18:16:32Z
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