Mane was an ancient city in what is today Syria and northern Iraq. Its exact location remains unknown,A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (Routledge, 2013)p. 30 though it was north of Nineveh.A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (1975) Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study (Baker Academic, 2002) p. 156.
During the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC), it was besieged.Mario Liverani (2013). The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy. p. 119. The chronicle of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3, Chronicle Concerning the Fall of Nineveh at livis.com. states of the Battle of Nineveh between Babylonian and Assyrian armies that "in the month Âbu the king of Akkad and his army went upstream to Mane, Sahiri and Bali-hu. He plundered them, sacked them extensively and abducted their gods."A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (1975)Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study (Baker Academic, 2002) p. 156.
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