Tegarama
Sign in to saveTegarama (Old Assyrian: Tergarma; Hittite: Takarama; Luwian: Lakarma/Lukarma) was a city in Anatolia during the Bronze Age. It is often identified with Gürün and biblical Togarmah.
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- Middle Bronze Age
- Late Bronze Age
- Reign of Tudhaliya III
- Reign of Suppiluliuma I
- Iron Age
- Reign of Sargon II
- Reign of Sennacherib
- Theories
- Gürün
- Akçadaǧ
- Changing location
- Biblical tradition
- Bibliography
- References
Tegarama (Old Assyrian: Tergarma; Hittite: Takarama; Luwian: Lakarma/Lukarma) was a city in Anatolia during the Bronze Age. It is often identified with Gürün and biblical Togarmah.
A fortified city in Kammanu (on the border of Tabal) mentioned in Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions of the ninth, eighth, and seventh centuries BC (reigns of Shalmaneser III, Sargon II, and Sennacherib) as Til-garimmu/Til-garimme.
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