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]

References

  1. Kessler, P L. "Kingdoms of the Levant - Edom". www.historyfiles.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  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. 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. 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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