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Location:

  • Iraq, Ḩusayn Juwayd
  • geo:32.781666,44.664722
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3000~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21214

Annotations

The Ubaid culture settlement of Uqair  was discovered in 1941 by Seton Lloyd, with Taha Baqir and Fuad Safar.

See:

  1. Seton Lloyd and F. Safar, Tell Uqair: Excavations by the Iraq Government Directorate General of Antiquities in 1940 and 1941, in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies, v. 2, no. 2, April,1943,  pp 131-158

Nearby

Tell Uqair , Painted Temple

Tell Uqair

Kutha - Gudua (5 km)

Modern Tell Ibrahim. Known as: Cuthah, or Cutha and Sumerian Gudua.

Jemdet Nasr (12 km)

Ancient Mesopotamian city - the eponymous type site for the Jemdet Nasr period (3100–2900 BC). As Suwayrah, Wasit, Iraq.


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