Ammon

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Ammon was an ancient kingdom located east of the Jordan River, often interacting and clashing with the Israelites throughout biblical history.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ammon canonical 14

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Canaanite language
Iron Age Levantine polity
ancient city
ancient kingdom
ancient people
biblical figure
capital city
deity
alliedWith Damascus
surface form: Aram-Damascus

Moab
archaeologicalEvidenceFoundAt Rujm al-Malfuf
Tell Siran
Tell el-ʿUmeiri
biblicalAncestor Ben-Ammi
surface form: Ben-ammi
capital Rabbah of the Ammonites
surface form: Rabbah
capitalOf Jordan
chiefDeity Milcom
conflictedWith Northern Kingdom of Israel
surface form: Kingdom of Israel

Kingdom of Judah
economyBasedOn agriculture
pastoralism
ethnicOriginAccordingToBible descendants of Lot
ethnonym Ammonite
surface form: Ammonites
flourishedDuring Iron Age
hadRulingClass kings of Ammon
knownFrom Assyrian inscriptions
Moabite inscriptions
biblical texts
language Ammonite language
laterIncorporatedInto Hellenistic kingdoms
Roman Empire
locatedEastOf Jordan River
locatedIn Ammon self-linksurface differs
Transjordan
mentionedIn Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Bible
surface form: Old Testament
modernSite Amman
neighborOf Edom
Israel
Moab
partOf ancient Levant
politicalStructure monarchy
regionCorrespondsTo Northern Jordan
surface form: northwestern Jordan
religion West Semitic religion
usedScript Phoenician alphabet
surface form: Phoenician script
vassalOf Achaemenid Empire
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ancient Israel borders Ammon
Gilead borderedBy Ammon
Ammon Hennacy givenName Ammon
Naamah associatedWith Ammon
Psalm 83 mentionsEntity Ammon
Ammon locatedIn Ammon self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Rabbah
Heshbon laterControl Ammon