Winter Palace of Abgar VIII - ܒܝܬ ܣܬܘܐ
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A royal residence in the Beth Tabarā area of Edessa, built after the flood of 201.
Names
- ܒܝܬ ܣܬܘܐ1
- Winter Palace of Abgar VIII
Place Type
building
Location
- Within Beth Tabarā, Edessa.2
Descriptions
“Fearful of a recurrence of the floods, Abgar the Great constructed a 'winter hourse as a royal dwelling' (in one text called a 'castle') on the Citadel mount in, apparently, 205-6.” 3
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ignazio Guidi (ed.), Chronica Minora I, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 3-4 (Paris: Typographeo Reipublicae, 1902), p: 2.
- 2 Benjamin Harris Cowper, "Selections from the Syriac. No. 1: The Chronicle of Edessa." Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record n.s. 5.9 (1864), p: 31.
- 3 J. B. Segal, Edessa, 'the Blessed City' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), p: 17.
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Royal winter house —
ܒܝܬ ܣܬܘܐ
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Daniel L. Schwartz, “ Royal winter house — ܒܝܬ ܣܬܘܐ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2018. Entry published August 8, 2018. http://syriaca.org/place/2583.About this Entry
Entry Title: Royal winter house — ܒܝܬ ܣܬܘܐ
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- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
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- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz