Kaus-gabri

Kaus-gabri

Kaus-gabri

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Ḳaus-gabri (Akkadian: 𒋡𒍑𒃮𒊑 Qauš-gabari; Edomite: 𐤒‬𐤅‬𐤎𐤂‬𐤁‬𐤓‬ Qāws-gābr) was king of Udumi or Edom in the 670s BC, during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal.[1][2] His name may mean "[the god] Kaus is my champion".[3] Apart from Assyrian sources, Ḳaus-gabri is also known to appear in a 7th-century BC clay seal impression discovered at the site of Umm al Biyara, which bears the inscription "(Belonging to) Qaus-gabar, King of Edom".[4]

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  1. [1]
    Kessler, P L. "Kingdoms of the Levant - Edom". www.historyfiles.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  2. [2]
    Crowell, Bradley L. (2021). Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History. SBL Press. pp. 52-53. ISBN 978-0-88414-528-8.
  3. [3]
    Johns, Claude Hermann Walter (c. 1901). An Assyrian Doomsday Book, Or, Liber Censualis of the District Round Harran in the Seventh Century B.C.: Copied from the Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum. J. C. Hinrichs. p. 17. The element gabri, in Si-gabri, Nashu-gabri, Ilu-gabri, is the Hebrew and Palmyrene Q5. It also is found in the name Gabri, Gabbari, and the Edomite Kaus gabri. Si gabri means Si is my champion.
  4. [4]
    Crowell, Bradley L. (2021). Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History. SBL Press. pp. 143-144. ISBN 978-0-88414-528-8.


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