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Text Pages: Larsa - Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 04 November 2006 Page Views: 1434
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 Site Name: Larsa Alternate Name: Ellasar
Country: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Basra Nearest Village: Tell Senkere
Latitude: 31.233330N Longitude: 45.850000E
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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Larsa was an ancient Sumerian city dating to at least between 2700 or 2800 BCE in Mesopotamia. 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.
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