Note: Ancient site that is now incorporated within the municipal boundaries of the modern city of Baghdad. It is now a tourist attraction and the main gates and walls of the city have been rebuilt. One of the most well known objects excavated from the site is a life-sized terracotta lion that was once at the temple entrance. The location was occupied from at least the Akkadian period through the Old Babylonian period, when it was part of the kingdom of Eshnunna in the Diyala River area.
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