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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ammon canonical 14

How this entity was disambiguated

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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 ⓘ