Talk:Aram-Damascus

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Arminden in topic Umomium?

incorrect cite edit

There is a cite for 2 Kings 11:33 ... 2 Kings 11 has only 20 lines. --Mannanan51 (talk) 01:25, 10 July 2011 (UTC)mannanan51Reply

Umomium? edit

[Apart from Damascus,] Other cities of Aram-Damascus have not been positively identified from textual sources Then what is "Umomium" on the map? --92.214.172.206 (talk) 17:31, 5 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

A good question. I don't know. An earlier version of the same map spells it Urmomium, which is an equal mystery. The location on the map suggests Capitolias but that article doesn't mention a connection to "Urmomium"?
it quite clearly is a pun. Your mom ium. 89.24.226.192 (talk) 14:54, 24 September 2019 (UTC)Reply
See below. The map was a nice try for 2010, but it's untenable by now. Arminden (talk) 19:03, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

The map is a bad joke, needs to be removed edit

It has already been removed from Edom and the History of Palestine. Elsewhere it's still in use, but just. It has also been criticised elsewhere - and for many years now; we should centralise the issue, and the Edom talk-page would be as good a place as any. An overview of the discussions, with Edom first: