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Beschrijving
<span data-page="269"><a data-source="s63d814" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Future_of_Biblical_Archaeology/PUcs-FQv4uIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA269&dq=ama+amate+uqnu">Hoffmeier and Millard, Future of Biblical Archaeology (2004)</a> (page 269)</span> describes it as "on the <ancient id="abb1e21">Uqnu River</ancient>" in "southern Mesopotamia;" <span data-page="37"><a data-source="s9c801e" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Routledge_Handbook_of_the_Peoples_an/AwwNS0diXP4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA37&dq=amate+fourteen+cities+located+on+the+uqnu">Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia (2009)</a> (page 37)</span> says, "Aramaean tribe in southern <ancient id="a8394b8">Babylonia</ancient>.... The city of Amatu was among fourteen cities located on the <ancient id="abb1e21">Uqnu r.</ancient> which submitted to Sargon II during the campaign of his twelfth regnal year; this settlement is surely associated with the tribal group of the same name"