Tel Besme - ܬܠܒܣ̈ܡܐ
http://syriaca.org/place/312
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“ܐܰܬܪܐ ܗܘ ܕܡܶܢ ܦܶܢܝ̈ܬܳܐ ܕܕܺܝܐܰܪ ܪܒܝܥܗ ܘܡܶܢ ܦܶܢܝ̈ܬܳܐ ܕܰܫܒܟܬܐܢ ܠܓܰܪܒܰܝ ܡܰܥܪܰܒ ܡܰܪܕܝܢ.” 1
“بلد من نواحي ديار ربيعة ثم من ناحية شبختان شمالي غربي ماردين” 2
“a town in the district of Rabiʿa, later Shabakhtan, northwest of Mardin.” 3
Status: published
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 538.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 505.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 559.
- 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:47.
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Tel Besme
— ܬܠܒܣ̈ܡܐ
” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/312.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Tel Besme — ܬܠܒܣ̈ܡܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/312.About this Entry
Entry Title: Tel Besme — ܬܠܒܣ̈ܡܐ
Additional Credit:
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz