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Multi-periodSite Name: Larsa Alternative Name: Ellasar
Country: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Basra  Nearest Village: Tell Senkere
Latitude: 31.233330N  Longitude: 45.850000E
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Larsa was an ancient Sumerian city dating to at least between 2700 or 2800 BCE in Mesopotamia, now Iraq. It lay 22 Km southeast of the Uruk ruin mounds, near the east bank of the Shatt-en-Nil canal. King Ur-Gur is said to have built or restored the E-Babbar ziggurat, the temple of Shamash.

A votive statuette called "The Worshipper or Larsa," dedicated to the god Amurru from the time of Hammurabi's in the early 2nd millennium BCE is in the Louvre. Larsa rose to importance in the Old Babylonian period about 2000 to 1600 BCE after the 3rd Dynasty of Ur collapsed. King Ishbi-Erra of Isin who ruled from about 2017 to 1985 BCE, controlled Larsa was a part. The Amorite Gungunum eventually broke with Isin and established an independent dynasty in Larsa. Larsa grew more powerful, but never accumulated a huge territory. At its peak under king Rim-Sin who reigned around 1822 to 1763 BCE, Larsa controlled only about 10-15 other city-states. Nevertheless, huge building and agricultural projects were undertaken by the kings of Larsa. The first excavations were undertaken at this site in 1854. Loftus describes a low, circular platform, about 6 Km in circumference, rising gradually from the level of the plain to a central mound 22 Meters in height. The mound is the ziggurat of the temple of Shamash. Judging from the inscriptions, the kings Hammurabi, Burna-buriash and Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon restored or rebuilt the temple of Shamash. From the ruins it would appear that Larsa and its suburb, Senkereh ceased to be inhabited at or soon after the Persian conquest in the first millenia.

Note: “When the creditor demands it...” – 3,800 year old tablets from Larsa, Iraq
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“When the creditor demands it...” – 3,800 year old tablets from Larsa, Iraq by davidmorgan on Friday, 14 January 2011
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He served one of the longest reigning kings in history, bought up real estate like there was no tomorrow and – oh yes – at times did business under the authority of the sun god Shamash.

His name was Abum-waqar and thanks to new research by Professor Karljürgen Feuerherm, of Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo Canada, we now know his story. “It took me basically a decade to work through this stuff,” Feuerherm said at a recent lecture in Toronto.

There are more than 200 tablets that show this man’s dealings. Most were dug up by looters in the early 20th century and are now located all over the world – with Yale University holding the lions share. Many of them have never appeared in scholarly publications before, much less in popular media.

From the tablets we know that he lived nearly 3,800 years ago in a city named Larsa, located in southern Iraq. At that time it was ruled by Rim-Sin, a home-grown king who reigned for nearly 60 years – one of the longest recorded kingships in history. During his rule Larsa exerted influence over its neighbours, even going so far as to conquer Uruk and Isin, major cities located nearby.
Unfortunately for Rim-Sin he met an unceremonious end when a rival of his, the Babylonian king Hammurabi, defeated him in battle, took him prisoner and sacked his city.

Who was Abum-waqar?

Abum-waqar was a “tamkar” a person whom we might think of as a businessman – albeit a well connected one.

“He’s involved with the Temple of the Sun God, he’s also involved with the palace, he’s involved with all these other tamkars and various other people,” said Professor Feuerherm.

At times he would act as an agent of the state, being entrusted to distribute goods to select individuals throughout the city. “This guy, right off the bat, was being entrusted with all these huge quantities of things,” said Feuerherm.
Examples of the stuff he distributed include food, precious metals (such as gold), garments, anointing oils, coloured pastes (white, black, yellow and red), bitumen, copper, tin and even millstones. “One gets the impression that he was well trusted – he got to hand out an awful lot of stuff.”

And in return he was handsomely rewarded. Records show that he received numerous goods including sesame, barley, vegetables, sheep and even Elamite textiles. “I don’t know much about textiles, but Elam is (on) the other side of the mountains,” said Feuerherm.

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