Meso2mil-English.JPG


Summary

  • La Mésopotamie au IIe millénaire av. J.-C.
  • Mesopotamia in 2nd millennium BC

Based on a recreation of Meso2mil.jpg as an SVG file (see Mesopotamia_in_2nd_millennium_BC.svg ), translating names to English. This JPG is a rendering of the above-linked SVG file as displayed in Google Chrome 17 on Windows 7.

Derived from NASA Satellite imagery (2MB JPEG) ( linking page ), used under NASA's Terms of Use

Follows other published maps of Mesopotamian cities, such as the map by Kessler (2012) and the interactive map by Lendering (2004) .

Landmarks

This map marks and captions the following cities, listed from top to bottom:

  • Nineveh
  • Qattara
  • Dūr-Katlimmu
  • Assur
  • Arrapha
  • Terqa
  • Nuzi
  • Mari
  • Eshnunna
  • Dur-Kurigalzu
  • Der
  • Sippar
  • Babylon
  • Kish
  • Susa
  • Borsippa
  • Nippur
  • Isin
  • Uruk
  • Larsa
  • Ur

Notes

Map overlaps with Media:Meso2mil.JPG .


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Captions

A map of Mesopotamia in 2nd millennium BC

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