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Multi-periodSite Name: Adab Alternative Name: Ud-Nun, BismayaCountry: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Basra Nearest Village: Tell Senkere
Latitude: 31.950000N Longitude: 45.966670E
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
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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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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