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ID: 7032894
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032894
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Aqar Quf (deserted settlement)  Aqar Quf (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 33 21 13 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 33.3530  decimal degrees
Long: 044 12 08 E  degrees minutes   Long: 44.2020  decimal degrees

Note: Was located near the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers, west of modern Baghdad. Site is noted for temples dedicated to Sumerian gods, a royal palace, and one of the best preserved ziggurats of the Kassite period. It was founded by a Kassite king of Babylon, Kurigalzu I, some time in the 14th century BCE; abandoned after the fall of the Kassite dynasty.

Names:
Aqar Quf (preferred,C,V)
Aqar-Qūf (C,V)
عقرقوف (C,V)
Dur-Kurigalzu (H,O,S)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-ʻIrāq (nation)  ........  Al-ʻIrāq (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Baghdād (governorate)  ............  Baghdād (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Aqar Quf (deserted settlement)  ................  Aqar Quf (deserted settlement) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-ʻIrāq (nation)  ........  Al-ʻIrāq (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Babylonia (former nation/state/empire)  ............  Babylonia (former nation/state/empire) (P)
Hierarchy of Aqar Quf (deserted settlement)  ................  Aqar Quf (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)
capital (H)  ............  of the Kassites, 14th century BCE
Kassite (H)
Mesopotamian (H)

Sources and Contributors:
عقرقوف..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Aqar-Qūf..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Aqar Quf..........  [VP]
.................  Parrot, Sumer (1961) 342
Dur-Kurigalzu..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  Parrot, Sumer (1961) table of sites
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Parrot, Sumer (1961) 342
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  Parrot, Sumer (1961) 342

 

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