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ID: 7032936 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032936			Record Type: administrative

Tell Uqair (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 47 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 32.7830 decimal degrees
Long: 044 41 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 44.6830 decimal degrees

Note: Settlement mound northeast of Babylon. It was occupied during the Ubaid period; flourished during the Jemdet Nasr and Uruk periods. Some Early Dynastic graves and Akkadian and Babylonian artifacts indicate the location continued in limited use through the time of Nebuchadnezzar.

Names:

Tell Uqair (preferred,C,V,S)

Tell 'Uqair (C,V)

Tell Uquair (C,V)

Tell Aqair (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Asia (continent) (P)

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Iraq (nation) (P)

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Mayorality of Baghdad (governorate) (P)

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Tell Uqair (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:

deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)
Babylonian (H)
Mesopotamian (H)

Sources and Contributors:

Tell Aqair..........	[VP]
.......................	Ehrich, Old World Archaeology (1992)

Tell Uqair..........	[VP Preferred]
.......................	Ehrich, Old World Archaeology (1992) 90
.......................	Parrot, Sumer (1961) 358

Tell 'Uqair..........	[VP]
.......................	Ehrich, Old World Archaeology (1992) table of sites

Tell Uquair..........	[VP]
.......................	Ehrich, Old World Archaeology (1992)

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Ehrich, Old World Archaeology (1992) 90-91
..................	Parrot, Sumer (1961) 358


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Ehrich, Old World Archaeology (1992)

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