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Surroundings:

Ur, So-called Ur, E-giparE-hursagUr, E-dublal-mahUr, planZigguratUr-Nammu StelaUr, zigguratImdugud Relief

Location:

  • Iraq, Maḩaţţat Ūr
  • geo:30.929605,46.084785
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1800~ / -5xx

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=103908

Annotations

Appendix, The Southern Margins of Sumer – Archaeological Survey of the Area of Eridu and Ur, Henry T. Wright, 1966, in ADAMS R. McC. (1981), Heartland of Cities. Surveys of Ancient Settlement and Land Use on the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates, University of Chicago Press ( https://archive.org/details/heartlandofcitie0000adam/page/n5/mode/2up )

BENATI Giacomo, LEONI Elena & MANTELLINI Simone (2017), Georeferencing Woolley’s “Royal Cemetery” and Deep Soundings at Ur (Iraq), OCNUS, 24 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316542993_Georeferencing_Woolley's_Royal_Cemetery_and_Deep_Soundings_at_Ur_Iraq )


Nearby

Anonymous settlement (EUAS-81)

Late Larsa, Neo-Babylonian and later periods occupation settlement (0,8 ha). Cluster of small mounds visible on Corona imagery (1968), since destroyed. Surveyed by T. Wright (1966).

Unidentified site (2 km)

Probable archaeological site. Located with satellite imagery.

Anonymous settlement (EUAS-80) (3 km)

Late Larsa, Kassite & post-Kassite settlement, with signs of later occupation during Neo-Babylonian and later periods. Not detected on Corona imagery (1968). Surveyed by T. Wright (1966).


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