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<< Image Pages >> Eridu - Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 04 November 2006  Page Views: 11344

Multi-periodSite Name: Eridu Alternative Name: Eridug, Urudug, Unug
Country: Iraq
NOTE: This site is 148.164 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: An Nasiriyah  Nearest Village: Abu Shahrein
Latitude: 30.816751N  Longitude: 45.985681E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Eridu submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing, from "Babylonian Expedition..." via archive.org Site in Iraq (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Iraq

Eridu is considered to be one of the very first urban settlements in Sumeria, dating to the fourth or fifth millennium BCE when it began as a village and is about 10 Km southwest of Ur, also one of the oldest citis in Mesopotamia. Eridu was most likely closer to the Persian Gulf near the mouth of the Euphrates River, but is now further away due to the accumulation of silt at the shoreline over the last 7 millennia. Eridu was the site of Enki's (the Sumerian version of the Akkadian water-god Ea) temple called E-abzu ("the abzu temple") as it was located at the edge of a swamp, or apsû. The mudbrick and reed houses urban settlement was centered on a mudbrick temple complex including the unfinished Ziggurat of Amar-Sin. By about 2050 BCE the city had gone into permanebt declined as there is little evidence of occupation after that date. The site was first excavated between 1946 and 1949 by the Iraq Antiquities Department. The German Archeologist Von Oppenheim discoveed that, "Eventually the entire south lapsed into stagnation, abandoning the political initiative to the rulers of the northern cities," In the Sumerian king list, Eridu is named as the city of the first kings when kingship descended from heaven In Eridu. When Eridu fell, the kingship was taken to Bad-tibira. The king list names long lived kings who ruled before the "flood." Adapa U-an, called the first man, or prototype for the biblical Adam, was a half-god half-man, with the title of Abgallu (Ab=water, Gal=Great, Lu=Man) of Eridu and served Alulim. Babylonian texts also refer of the creation of Eridu by the god Marduk as the first city. The ziggurat ruins of Eridu are larger and older than any others. One name for Eridu in cuneiform logograms was pronounced "Nun.Ki," meaning the Mighty Place, in Sumerian. The biblical Nimrod is said to have built temples in Eridu.
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Re: Eridu by Anonymous on Friday, 10 October 2008
now whats that '7' about? anyway wheres the map its not up there not below either ... google needs to get its facts striat(iknow that look up is spelled wrong)
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