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?aus-gabri
(
Akkadian
: ????????
Qau?-gabari
;
Edomite
: ????????????
Q?ws-g?br
) 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, ?aus-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]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Kessler, P L.
"Kingdoms of the Levant - Edom"
.
www.historyfiles.co.uk
. Retrieved
2017-08-30
.
- ^
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
.
- ^
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.
- ^
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
.