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ID: 6001920
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6001920
Record Type:
administrative
Tell Asmar (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 32 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 044 58 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Ancient city in the Diyālā river valley in E central Iraq; expanded throughout Early Dynastic Period; became independent after the fall of Ur; conquered by King Hammurabi of Babylonia in 1760s BC, after which it declined & was abandoned.
Names:
Tell Asmar
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Tall al-Asmar
(
C
,
V
)
Asmar
(
C
,
V
)
Eshnunna
(
H
,
V
)
Ashnunnak
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Iraq
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mayorality of Baghdad
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Tell Asmar
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
............
occupied sometime before 3000 BC
archaeological site (
C
)
............
excavations by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago have revealed Sumerian stone statuettes & copper objects
tell (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ashnunnak..........
[
VP
]
....................
Parrot, Sumer (1961)
table of sites
Asmar..........
[
VP
]
..............
Parrot, Sumer (1961)
table of sites
Eshnunna..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
Tall al-Asmar..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 558
Tell Asmar..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Atlas of Mesopotamia (1990)
231
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I:921
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Atlas of Mesopotamia (1990)
231
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I:921
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV:558
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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