Kar-Mullissi

archaeological site · 1700 AD – 2100 AD

Kar-Mullissu (Akkadian "Quay of the goddess Mullissu") is an Assyrian town in northern Iraq. Modern Karemles (also Karemlash and Karemlish) is located less than twenty-nine km southeast of Mosul (ancient Nineveh). Inscribed bricks of the seventh-century-BCE Assyrian king Sargon II have been discovered there.

Coordinates

36.30569, 43.40960

Also known as

Karemlash (en), Karemlash (en), Kār-Mullissu (akk), Tall al-Qaddīsah Barbārah (akk), تل القديسة بربارة (akk)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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