LAGASH

lāˈgăsh or Shirpurlashĭrpoorˈlə, ancient city of Sumer, S Mesopotamia, now located at Telloh, SE Iraq. Lagash was flourishing by c.2400 b.c., but traces of habitation go back at least to the 4th millennium b.c. After the fall of Akkad (2180 b.c.), when the rest of Mesopotamia was in a state of chaos, Lagash was able to maintain peace and prosperity under its ruler Gudea. Excavations begun on the site in 1877 revealed the beautiful sculptures of Gudea, which had been dedicated to the city's patron goddess, Ningirsu. Thousands of inscribed tablets were also found at the site.

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books on: Lagash  - 275 results

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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
Book by Samuel Noah Kramer; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981
Subjects: Sumerians
...14. Ur-Nanshe, King of Lagash: limestone plaque 208...in the Times of the Early Princes of Lagash," "Lamentation over the Destruction...far as extant material goes, lived in Lagash, a city in southern Sumer that played...
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Economic Structures of Antiquity
Book by Morris Silver; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Economic History--To 500
...Dynastic III ca. 2500- ca. 2300 Lagash 2570-2342 Urukagina 2351-2342...of the third millennium, the rulers of Lagash had constructed shrines along its border...Utu" Cooper 1986: 55 . Ur-Nanshe of Lagash built the temple of Tirasha on the border...
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Who's Who in the Ancient Near East
Book by Gwendolyn Leick; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Middle East--History--To 622--Biography--Dictionaries
...xxv, 64-83 Akurgal Early Dynastic Sumerian king of Lagash, son of UR-NANSHE. He is depicted with his father on a stone...Baranamtara Wife of the Early Dynastic Sumerian ruler LUGALANDA of Lagash, identified as such on a seal c. 24th century . She seems...
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Origins: The Ancient near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions
Book by William W. Hallo; E. J. Brill, 1996
Subjects: Civilization, Western--Middle Eastern Influences, Middle East--Civilization--To 622
...essayed the first edition of an enigmatic frag- ment from pre-Sargonic Lagash ; variously described as a hymn to the Sun or a lamentation over the destruction of Lagash, ?4 but which was in fact one of the oldest pieces of Sumerian mythology...
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A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
Book by Gwendolyn Leick; Routledge, 1998
...E-.ninnu, the temple of Ningirsu at Lagash: the weak men are sustained by you, you...period he formed part of the pantheon of Lagash. He also had a temple in Kuar a , near...Adab and received offerings at Umma and Lagash. In the Old Babylonian times she became...
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journal articles on: Lagash  - 26 results

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Editorial: the Threshold of the Millennium
Journal article by Michel Granek; The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, Vol. 36, 1999
...told- 58 years ago - a story about the planet Lagash, in revolution in a complex system with six suns. There is no night on Lagash, light is permanent. As a consequence of the complexity of Lagashs revolution in such a system, the Law of Universal...
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The Historian and the Sumerian Gods
Journal article; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, 1994
Subjects: Historians--Addresses, essays, lectures, Jacobsen, Thorkild--Addresses, essays, lectures
...dispute between two Sumerian city-states, Lagash with its god Ningirsu, and Umma, with...stelae and carried them into the plain of Lagash. Enlils warrior, Ningirsu, did at his...with Ush, why he would carry stelae into Lagash territory, and whether that was a good...
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Revisiting Bala
Journal article by Jacob L. Dahl; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006
Subjects: Authors--Works, Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Sharlach, Tonia M.--Works, Writers--Works
...describes the bala contribution of the Lagash and Umma provinces. Each of these chapters...the bala contributions of both Umma and Lagash consisted of much more than just animals...a brief discussion of the province of Lagash, the traditional views of the bala payment...
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Keilschrifttexte Aus Japanischen Sammlungen
Journal article by T.M. Sharlach; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Keilschrifttexte aus japanischen Sammlungen (Book)--Book reviews
...come from Puzris-Dagan, though Umma and Lagash tablets are also well represented. According...the text as an Umma document. Perhaps a Lagash provenance is more plausible, however...tablet format and prosopography are to Lagash texts. Such tablets may serve to remind...
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Beware the Ides of April: High Taxes - and the Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
Journal article by Charles Adams; Policy Review, 1994
Subjects: Taxation--Economic aspects
...now Iraq. The dawn of history--and of tax history--is recorded on clay cones excavated in the town of Lagash in Sumer. The leadership of Lagash instituted heavy taxation during a terrible war. When the war ended, the tax men refused to give up their...
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The Griffin
Magazine article by Rachel Hajar; World and I, Vol. 13, December 1998
Subjects: Animals, Mythical--Portrayals, Middle East--History, Middle Eastern history, Monsters--History, Mythical animals--Portrayals, Mythology--History
...Griffin. by Rachel Hajar Mythical Beasts of the Middle East: Part I Four thousand years ago, Gudea, the ruler of Lagash, had a dream. "There was a man, who was a huge as heaven, as huge as earth. Underneath his feet was a very large bird--part...
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Sumeria Plaque of Ur Nanshe
Magazine article by Karl Cole; School Arts, Vol. 100, September 2000
Subjects: Art--History, Middle East--Art, Sumeria--Art, Ur (Ancient city)--Art
...who controlled floods and built walled cities such as Ur and Lagash. They may have migrated from western Iran during the Preliterate...hundreds of years. Detail from the Plaque of Ur Nanshe, from Lagash, 2650-2350 BC. Limestone. Louvre, Paris. This relief is a...
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Dehydrating Conflict
Magazine article by Sandra L. Postel, Aaron T. Wolf; Foreign Policy, September 2001
Subjects: Boundaries--Environmental aspects, Rivers--International aspects, War--Forecasts, Water-supply--Political aspects
...their side. The only recorded incident of an outright war over water was 4,500 years ago between two Mesopotamian city-states, Lagash and Umma, in the region we now call southern Iraq. Conversely, between the years 805 and 1984, countries signed more than 3...
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Mesopotamian Treasures
Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, Autumn 2008
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Investigations, Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq, Historic sites--Investigations, Looting--Investigations
...the likely invention of writing. And they landed in Ubaid, cradle of a culture that thrived from about 5000 to 4000 Be, and Lagash, the original abode of some of the most spectacular artifacts now in the Louvre in Paris. The experts toured only in the south...
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Can Baghdad Rise from the Ashes? War Torn Baghdad Is Not a Destination High on Most Peoples List of Holiday Destinations, Not Yet Anyway ..
Magazine article by Karen Dabrowska; The Middle East, March 2004
Subjects: Politics--Analysis
...any of Iraqs major ancient sites (Agargouf, Arbil, Ashur, Babylon, Borsippa, Cresiphon, Eridu, Hatra, Khorsabad, Kifal, Kish, Lagash, Larsa, Nimrud, Nineveh, Nippur, Tell Harmal, AlUkhaidir, Ur and Uruk). The damage has been done by looters and years of neglect...


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encyclopedia articles on: Lagash  - 12 results

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Lagash
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAGASH la gash or Shirpurla shirpoor l , ancient city of Sumer , S Mesopotamia, now located at Telloh, SE Iraq. Lagash was flourishing by c.2400 b.c., but traces of habitation...when the rest of Mesopotamia was in a state of chaos, Lagash was able to maintain peace and prosperity under its ruler...
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Telloh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TELLOH see Lagash . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sumerian and Babylonian Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Uruk (Erech), Mari , Kish , and Lagash , among other cities, was one of enormous...at the back (c.2500 b.c.; Baghdad). At Lagash a strongly modeled head of stone (c.2500...contemporary and later cultures. The city of Lagash survived the invasions and was beautified...
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Babylonia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The name is sometimes given to the whole civilization of S Mesopotamia, including the states established by the city rulers of Lagash, Akkad (or Agade), Uruk, and Ur in the 3d millennium b.c. Historically it is limited to the first dynasty of Babylon established...
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Shirpurla
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHIRPURLA see Lagash . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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