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Clay Tablet map from Ga-Sur, ca 2500 BC

Location:

  • Iraq, Tarkalān
  • geo:35.369972,44.254917
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2335~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21102

Annotations

Gasur was founded during the Akkadian Empire and named Gasur. In the middle of the second millennium. incoroprated by Hurrians and renemed renamed Nuzi. Nearly 5000 tablets were found in the excavations at Nuzi, mostly business and legal documents from both the palace as well as in private residences.

See

  1. Mirko Novak, The Architecture of Nuzi and Its Significance in the Architectural History of Mesopotamia, 1999 - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/3480/1/Novak_The_Architecture_of_Nuzi_1999.pdf
  2. Martha A. Morrison, Ernest René Lacheman, David I. Owen: The Eastern Archives of Nuzi, Eisenbrauns, 1993

Nearby

Gasur Map

Clay tablet. Gasur texs. Nuzi Map.

Gasur, Temple of Istar-Sawuska

Gasur [Nuzi] - Yorghan Tepe. Old Babylonian Period temple probably dedicated to Istar-Shawushka,

Thelser (16 km)

OmnesViae import TPPlace2682


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