Bad-tibira
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Bad-tibira was an ancient Sumerian city dating back to the Early Dynastic period, which appears among antediluvian cities in the Sumerian King List. In the earliest days of Akkadian language studies i
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Weld Blundell Prism with transcription and translation by Stephen Herbert Langdon
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Eridu
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Eridu was a Sumerian city located at Tell Abu Shahrain, also Abu Shahrein or Tell Abu Shahrayn, an archaeological site in Lower Mesopotamia. It is located in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, near the modern
Bad-tibira
…Esheshegarra at Bad-tibira. According to the Sumerian King List, Bad-tibira was the second city to "exercise kingship" in Sumer before the flood, following Eridu. These kings were said to be En-men-lu-ana, En-men-gal-ana and Dumuzid the Shepherd. The early Sumerian text Descent of Inanna into the Underworld…
Ruins of a ziggurat at Eridu
Pre-historic building layers in Eridu. The "Temple Sequence" starts at level XI (Salmon background rows in the table to the left)
Bowl; mid 6th–5th millennium BC; ceramic; 6.99 cm; Tell Abu Shahrain; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bowl; mid 6th–5th millennium BC; ceramic; Tell Abu Shahrain; Metropolitan Museum of Art