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Surroundings:

Ur, zigguratE-hursagUr-Nammu StelaUr, E-dublal-mahUr, planZigguratUr, E-giparUr, So-called IRAQ_Lower Euphrates_1968_AS (EUAS-02)Imdugud Relief

Location:

  • Iraq, Qaryat al Karūsh
  • geo:30.974304,46.117561
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2350~ / -2050~

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=104110

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

Diqdiqah 1 (EUAS-11)

Akkadian and Ur III settlement. Large mound, surveyed by T. Wright (1966). Area of several mounds, which can be interpreted as a northern suburb of Ur city.

Urim - Ur Sumerian, Fortress (1 km)

Kassite fortress

Ur [Urim], North Harbour (1 km)

Ancient harbour


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