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Gilgamesh tablet

Location:

  • Iraq, Tarkalān
  • geo:35.370506,44.254669
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -2350~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=57560

Annotations

Nuzi Map isa map of preflood Near East, dates to the Old Akkadian period (ca. 2360-2180 BC). Its depicts the neibourhood of Gasur. Currently housed in The Semitic Museum at Harvard.

See:

  1. Wayne Horowitz: Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography, Eisenbraun 1998, pp. dif.
  2. Richard J. A. Talbert: Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, University of Chicago Press 2014
  3. Eleanor Robson, Mathematics in the Ancient Iraq: A Social History, Princeton University Press, 2008

Nearby

Gasur, Temple of Istar-Sawuska

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

Gasur [Nuzi] - Yorghan Tepe

Known also as Nuzu. Jurghan Tabba.

Thelser (16 km)

OmnesViae import TPPlace2682


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