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<< Our Photo Pages >> Adab - Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 04 November 2006  Page Views: 6887

Multi-periodSite Name: Adab Alternative Name: Ud-Nun, Bismaya
Country: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Basra  Nearest Village: Tell Senkere
Latitude: 31.950000N  Longitude: 45.966670E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Adab
Adab submitted by AlexHunger : Sumerian King from town of Adab in the Istanbul Museum. This was found in 1903-104 when the Turks still controlled what is now Iraq. Nowadays, archaeological artefacts just disappear. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq

The ancient city of Adab now consists of group of ruin mounds about 1.5 km long and 3 Km wide and up to 12 Meters in height. Excavations were begun in 1903 by a University of Chicago team led by Dr. Edgar James Banks. Adab was briefly mentioned in the introduction to the 2250 BCE Hammurabi Code. A canal divided the city into two parts and an island on, which stood the E-mach temple or ziggurat. Although of considerable importance, the city was deserted very early on, as the ruins found close to the mounds surface belong to Dungi and Ur Gur, kings of Ur in the earlier part of the third millennium BCE. Immediately below these the remains of Naram-Sin and Sar-gon dating to about 3000 BCE were found . Below these there were still an other 10.5 Meters of stratified remains, attesting to the antiquitiy of the site. The excavations fround remains of buildings, walls, graves, a large number of a very early inscribed clay tablets, bronze and stone tablets, bronze implements, fragments of vases in marble, alabaster, onyx, porphyry and granite, some of which were inscribed, and others engraved and inlaid with ivory and precious stones and a complete white marble statue, apparently the most ancient found so far in Babylonia. This statue, now in the Constantinople museum, bears the inscription of E-mach, King Da-udu, King of Ud-Nun. Unfortunately few of the texts from the Adab cuneiform tablets have been published so far.
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Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist  : Madaba Mosaic Map (Vote or comment on this photo)

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : Fireplace decorated with found pottery, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq (Vote or comment on this photo)

Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist  : Madaba Mosaic Map (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kadabaru cave
Kadabaru cave submitted by Aska : Site in Kyūshū Japan Skull of goat rolling, still cave man living? (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kadabaru cave
Kadabaru cave submitted by Aska : Site in Kyūshū Japan

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : Plan of an excavated temple, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : Plan of an excavated house, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : The statue, back, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : The statue, front, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : Photo of the temple, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : The temple mound, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : Plan of the palace, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq

Adab
Adab submitted by durhamnature : The mounds of the ruins, from "Bismya..." via archive.org Site in Iraq

Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist  : Madaba Mosaic Map

Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist  : Madaba Mosaic Map

Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist

Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist  : Madaba Mosaic Map

Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist  : Madaba Mosaic Map

Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist

Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map submitted by motist  : Madaba Mosaic Map

Madaba (Jordan)
Madaba (Jordan) submitted by AlexHunger : Nabatean Funeral Stelle found near Madaba, Jordan from 1st century CE. The site had been continuously unhabited since the Neolithic. Object in the Louvre in Paris.

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