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Text Pages: Lagash - Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 04 November 2006 Page Views: 2385
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 Site Name: Lagash Alternate Name: Sirpurla
Country: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Nasiriyah Nearest Village: Tell Al-Hiba
Latitude: 31.433330N Longitude: 46.533330E
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Lagash was one of the oldest Sumerian and Babylonia cities in the 3rd millennium BCE just northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It was at that time ruled by independent kings such as Ur-Nina of the 24th century BCE and his successors. The Lagash dynasty is not found on the Sumerian king list, but of the other intact names that is intact is that of Ur-Nanshe. With the Semitic conquest, Lagash becoming subject to Sargon of Akkad and his successors, but remained Sumerian. After the collapse of Sargon's Empire under pressure from the Guti tribes, Lagash again thrived under the patesis Ur-baba or Ur-bau and Gudea. Gudea, following Sargon, was one of the first rulers to claim divinity for himself; and had numerous statues or idols of himself placed in temples throughout Sumer. During his reign, the capital of Lagash was really Girsu. According to one estimate, around 2075 to 2030 BCE, Lagash was once the largest city in the world. After the time of Gudea, Lagash seems to have declined and nothing more is known about it until the construction of the Seleucid fortress. It consists of a low, long line of ruin mounds, about 5 km east of Shatt-el-Haj. The Lagash ruins were discovered in 1877 by the French consul in Basra, Ernest de Sarzec. One of the two larger mounds was the E-Ninnu temple, shrine of Nin-girsu or Ninib, the patron god of Lagash. The temple had been razed and a Greek or Seleucid period fortress was built upon the ruins. Numerous decapitated and otherwise mutilated statues and fragments of bas reliefs were found under the fortress, which are now in the Louvre. The excavations in the other larger mound found remains of buildings containing objects of all sorts in bronze and stone, dating from the earliest Sumerian period onward. This mound was occupied by warehouses, for not only staples, but also vessels, weapons, sculptures and object connected with the administration of a palace or temple. Sarzec found in a small outlying mound about 30,000 inscribed clay tablets which were the archives of the temple. Looters, unfortunately, scattered many of the tablets all over Europe and America. An extremely fragmentary Sumerian supplement, known as the Royal Chronicle of Lagash recounts how, abound two hundred years after the deluge, mankind was having difficulty growing food, being dependent solely on rainwater. It relates how irrigation and cultivation of barley techniques were then imparted by the gods.
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