Dietrich Opitz
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Dietrich Opitz was a German assyriologist and colleague of Bruno Meissner
. He was the first to propose that Tell el Fakhariya
was the location of Wassuganni, capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni from c.1500 BC. though this is now considered unlikely.
Bruno Meissner
Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner was a German assyriologist.From 1904 to 1921 Meissner was professor at the University of Breslau, then from 1921 professor of assyriology at the University of Berlin. His main work on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts appeared in 1920 and 1925 in two volumes...
. He was the first to propose that Tell el Fakhariya
Tell el Fakhariya
Tell el Fakhariya, or Tell el Fecheriyeh with variants, is an ancient site in the Khabur River basin in the Al Hasakah Governorate of northern Syria...
was the location of Wassuganni, capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni from c.1500 BC. though this is now considered unlikely.
Works
- Eine Form der Ackerbestellung in Assyrien ZA 37 nf 3 (1927):
- Ein Altar des Konigs Tukulti-Ninurta 1. von Assyrien, AfO, 7 (1931), 83-90.
- Der geschlachtete Gott
- Das Problem des Burney-Reliefs