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Hellenistic templeBlau Monuments

Location:

  • Iraq, Ath Thuwayn
  • geo:31.324938,45.637215
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -3000~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

1850-1854 - the first excavation of William Kennett Loftus (1820-1858).

1912- excavation of Robert Johann Koldewey (1855-1925).

See:

  1. Uruk, in: P. Bienkowski., Millard A. (eds.), Dictionary of the Ancient Near East, British Museum Press, London 2000, pp. 312-313.

Nearby

Hadji Muhammed

Ubaid period settlement in Mesoppotamia. Hajj Mohammed.

Uruk- Innana (Ishtar) ziggurat, E-giparimin

Sumerian : Unug; Bibl.: Erech - ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia. Warka.

Warka Vase

Sumerian stone vessel found in Uruk - Warka


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