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Kish (Sumer), the Glossary

Kish (Kiš;; cuneiform: 𒆧𒆠; Kiššatu, near modern Tell al-Uhaymir) is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate (Iraq), located south of Baghdad and east of the ancient city of Babylon.^[1]

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History of Babylon Governorate
Kish civilization
Populated places disestablished in the 13th century
Populated places established in the 6th millennium BC
Sumerian cities

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.

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Adab (city)

Adab or Udab (Sumerian: Adabki, spelled UD.NUNKI) was an ancient Sumerian city between Girsu and Nippur. Kish (Sumer) and Adab (city) are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former kingdoms, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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Adad-apla-iddina

Adad-apla-iddina, typically inscribed in cuneiform mdIM-DUMU.UŠ-SUM-na, mdIM-A-SUM-na or dIM-ap-lam-i-din- meaning the storm god “Adad has given me an heir”, was the 8th king of the 2nd Dynasty of Isin and the 4th Dynasty of Babylon and ruled 1064–1043.

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Aga of Kish

Aga (Sumerian: Aga, Agga, or Akkà) commonly known as Aga of Kish, was the twenty-third and last king in the first dynasty of Kish during the Early Dynastic I period.

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Akkad (city)

Akkad (also spelt Accad, Akkade, or Agade, Akkadian:, also URIKI in Sumerian during the Ur III period) was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia during a period of about 150 years in the last third of the 3rd millennium BC. Kish (Sumer) and Akkad (city) are archaeological sites in Iraq and Former populated places in Iraq.

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Akkadian Empire

The Akkadian Empire was the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer.

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Akkadian language

Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.

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Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

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Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum.

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Assyria

Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Austen Henry Layard

Sir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 18175 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat.

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Azupiranu

Azupiranu (𒌑𒄯𒊕 / Šamḫurrēšu) was a place described to be a city or a town in ancient Mesopotamia. Kish (Sumer) and Azupiranu are Former populated places in Iraq.

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Kish (Sumer) and Babylon are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former populated places in Iraq and history of Babylon Governorate.

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Babylon Governorate

Babylon Governorate or Babil Province (محافظة بابل Muḥāfaẓa Bābil) is a governorate in central Iraq.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Bau (goddess)

Bau, also read Baba or Babu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒁀𒌑 dBa-U2), was a Mesopotamian goddess.

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Chronology of the ancient Near East

The chronology of the ancient Near East is a framework of dates for various events, rulers and dynasties.

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Cuneiform

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.

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Dingir

Dingir ⟨⟩, usually transliterated DIĜIR, is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'.

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Dumuzid the Fisherman

Dumuzid, titled the Fisherman, was a legendary Sumerian king of Uruk listed originating from Kuara.

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Dur-Kurigalzu

Dur-Kurigalzu (modern عَقَرْقُوف in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq) was a city in southern Mesopotamia, near the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers, about west of the center of Baghdad. Kish (Sumer) and Dur-Kurigalzu are archaeological sites in Iraq and Former populated places in Iraq.

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Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)

The Early Dynastic period (abbreviated ED period or ED) is an archaeological culture in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) that is generally dated to and was preceded by the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods.

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East Semitic languages

The East Semitic languages are one of three divisions of the Semitic languages.

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Ebla

Ebla (Sumerian: eb₂-la, إبلا., modern: تل مرديخ, Tell Mardikh) was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria. Kish (Sumer) and Ebla are Former kingdoms and Kish civilization.

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Ebla tablets

The Ebla tablets are a collection of as many as 1,800 complete clay tablets, 4,700 fragments, and many thousands of minor chips found in the palace archives of the ancient city of Ebla, Syria.

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Elam

Elam (Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite:; Sumerian:; Akkadian:; עֵילָם ʿēlām; 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq.

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Enki

Enki (𒀭𒂗𒆠) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.

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Enmebaragesi

Enmebaragesi (Sumerian: Enmebárgisi) originally Mebarasi was the penultimate king of the first dynasty of Kish and is recorded as having reigned 900 years in the Sumerian King List.

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Eshnunna

Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar in Diyala Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient Sumerian (and later Akkadian) city and city-state in central Mesopotamia 12.6 miles northwest of Tell Agrab and 15 miles northwest of Tell Ishchali. Kish (Sumer) and Eshnunna are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former kingdoms, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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Etana

Etana (E.TA.NA) was the thirteenth king of the first dynasty of Kish, according to the Sumerian King List.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.

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François Thureau-Dangin

François Thureau-Dangin (3 January 1872 in Paris – 24 January 1944 in Paris) was a French archaeologist, assyriologist and epigrapher.

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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh (𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦|translit.

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Girsu

Girsu (Sumerian Ĝirsu; cuneiform 𒄈𒋢𒆠) was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some northwest of Lagash, at the site of what is now Tell Telloh in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. Kish (Sumer) and Girsu are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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Hammurabi

Hammurabi (𒄩𒄠𒈬𒊏𒁉|translit.

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Hellenistic period

In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.

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Henri de Genouillac

Henri Pierre Louis du Verdier de Genouillac, called Abbé Henri de Genouillac, (15 March 1881, Rouen – 20 November 1940, in his clergy house in Villennes-sur-Seine) was a French Roman Catholic priest, epigrapher and archaeologist specializing in Assyriology.

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Henry Field (anthropologist)

Henry Field (December 15, 1902 – January 4, 1986) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist.

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Hormuzd Rassam

Hormuzd Rassam (هرمز رسام; ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 182616 September 1910) was an Assyriologist and author.

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Ignace Gelb

Ignace Jay Gelb (October 14, 1907 – December 22, 1985) was a Polish-American ancient historian and Assyriologist who pioneered the scientific study of writing systems.

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Inanna

Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

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Indus–Mesopotamia relations

Indus–Mesopotamia relations are thought to have developed during the second half of 3rd millennium BCE, until they came to a halt with the extinction of the Indus valley civilization after around 1900 BCE.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Isin

Isin (modern Arabic: Ishan al-Bahriyat) is an archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq which was the location of the Ancient Near East city of Isin, occupied from the late 4th millennium Uruk period up until at least the late 1st millennium BC Neo-Babylonian period. Kish (Sumer) and Isin are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former kingdoms, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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Istanbul Archaeology Museums

The Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri) are a group of three archaeological museums located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, near Gülhane Park and Topkapı Palace.

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Julius Oppert

Julius (Jules) Oppert (9 July 1825 – 21 August 1905) was a French-German Assyriologist, born in Hamburg of Jewish parents.

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Jushur

Jushur (cuneiform: ĜIŠ.UR3; Sumerian: Ĝušur) appears as a king of Kish in the Sumerian king list, a literary composition created in Mesopotamia at the beginning of the second millennium BC.

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Kassite dynasty

The Kassite dynasty, also known as the third Babylonian dynasty, was a line of kings of Kassite origin who ruled from the city of Babylon in the latter half of the second millennium BC and who belonged to the same family that ran the kingdom of Babylon between 1595 and 1155 BC, following the first Babylonian dynasty (Old Babylonian Empire; 1894-1595 BC).

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Ki (goddess)

Ki (Sumerian) was the earth goddess in Sumerian religion, chief consort of the sky god An.

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Kish civilization

According to a theory proposed by Ignace Gelb, the Kish civilization encompassed the sites of Ebla and Mari in the Levant, Nagar in the north, and the proto-Akkadian sites of Abu Salabikh and Kish in central Mesopotamia in to the early East Semitic era in Mesopotamia and the Levant.

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Kokushikan University

is a private university in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

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Kullassina-bel

Kullassina-bel of Kish was the second king in the First Dynasty of Kish according to the Sumerian king list, which adds that he reigned for 960 years (or 900 in some copies).

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Lagash

Lagash (cuneiform: LAGAŠKI; Sumerian: Lagaš) was an ancient city state located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Al-Shatrah, Iraq. Kish (Sumer) and Lagash are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former kingdoms, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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Larsa

Larsa (𒌓𒀕𒆠|translit. Kish (Sumer) and Larsa are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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Leonard William King

Leonard William King, FSA (8 December 1869 – 20 August 1919) was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge.

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List of cities of the ancient Near East

The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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Mari, Syria

Mari (Cuneiform:, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Kish (Sumer) and Mari, Syria are Former kingdoms and Kish civilization.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Mesannepada

Mesannepada (𒈩𒀭𒉌𒅆𒊒𒁕), Mesh-Ane-pada or Mes-Anne-pada ("Youngling chosen by An") was the first king listed for the First Dynasty of Ur (c. 26th century BC) on the Sumerian king list.

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Mesilim

Mesilim (𒈨𒁲), also spelled Mesalim (c. 2600 BC), was lugal (king) of the Sumerian city-state of Kish.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Nabonidus

Nabonidus (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-naʾid, meaning "May Nabu be exalted" or "Nabu is praised") was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC.

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Naram-Sin of Eshnunna

Naram-Suen (also transcribed Narām-Sîn, Naram-Sin) was a king who ruled over Eshnunna for at least nine years during the later 19th century BCE, during its brief time of political power.

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Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar II (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Biblical Hebrew: Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar), also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC.

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Neo-Assyrian Empire

The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history.

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Neo-Babylonian Empire

The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia until Faisal II in the 20th century.

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Nippur

Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, often logographically recorded as, EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;"I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena & Prehistory: Vol. 1, Part 1, Cambridge University Press, 1970 Akkadian: Nibbur) was an ancient Sumerian city. Kish (Sumer) and Nippur are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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Old Babylonian Empire

The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to, and comes after the end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period.

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Parthia

Parthia (𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 Parθava; 𐭐𐭓𐭕𐭅Parθaw; 𐭯𐭫𐭮𐭥𐭡𐭥 Pahlaw) is a historical region located in northeastern Greater Iran.

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Parthian Empire

The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD.

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Qurnah disaster

The Qurnah disaster was a May 1855 shipwreck at Al-Qurnah (modern Iraq), at the confluence point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

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Samsu-Ditana

Samsu-ditāna, inscribed phonetically in cuneiform sa-am-su-di-ta-na in the seals of his servants, the 11th and last king of the Amorite or First Dynasty of Babylon, reigned for 31 years,BM 33332 Babylonian King List A i 2.

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Samsu-iluna

Samsu-iluna (Amorite: Shamshu-iluna, "The Sun (is) our god") (–1712 BC) was the seventh king of the founding Amorite dynasty of Babylon.

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Sargon of Akkad

Sargon of Akkad (𒊬𒊒𒄀|Šarrugi), also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC.

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Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.

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Shatt en-Nil

The Shatt en-Nil Is a dry river bed/canal in southern Iraq.

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Sin-Muballit

Sin-Muballit was the father of Hammurabi and the fifth Amorite king of the first dynasty (the Amorite Dynasty) of Babylonia, reigning c. 1813-1792 or 1748-1729 BC (see Chronology of the Ancient Near East).

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Stephen Herbert Langdon

Stephen Herbert Langdon, FBA (1876May 19, 1937) was an American-born British Assyriologist.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.

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Sumerian King List

The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC.

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Sumerian language

Sumerian (Also written 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi.ePSD2 entry for emegir.|'native language'|) was the language of ancient Sumer.

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Sumu-abum

Sumu-Abum (also Su-abu) was an Amorite, and the first King of the First Dynasty of Babylon (the Amorite Dynasty).

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Sumu-la-El

Sumu-la-El (also Sumulael or Sumu-la-ilu) was a King in the First Dynasty of Babylon.

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Sumuel

Sumuel or Sumu-El (su-mu-el3) ruled the ancient Near East city-state of Larsa from c. 1895-1866 BC (MC).

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Tutelary deity

A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or a spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation.

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Ubaid period

The Ubaid period (c. 5500–3700 BC) is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia.

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Ur

Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (mound of bitumen) in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq. Kish (Sumer) and Ur are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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Uruk

Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river. Kish (Sumer) and Uruk are archaeological sites in Iraq, Former kingdoms, Former populated places in Iraq and Sumerian cities.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish_(Sumer)

Also known as Kishite, Kishite language, Kishites, Tall al-Uhaymir, Tell al-Uhaymir.

, Kassite dynasty, Ki (goddess), Kish civilization, Kokushikan University, Kullassina-bel, Lagash, Larsa, Leonard William King, List of cities of the ancient Near East, Louvre, Mari, Syria, Mediterranean Sea, Mesannepada, Mesilim, Mesopotamia, Nabonidus, Naram-Sin of Eshnunna, Nebuchadnezzar II, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Nippur, Old Babylonian Empire, Parthia, Parthian Empire, Qurnah disaster, Samsu-Ditana, Samsu-iluna, Sargon of Akkad, Sasanian Empire, Shatt en-Nil, Sin-Muballit, Stephen Herbert Langdon, Stucco, Sumerian King List, Sumerian language, Sumu-abum, Sumu-la-El, Sumuel, Tutelary deity, Ubaid period, University of Chicago Press, University of Oxford, Ur, Uruk, Uruk period, Zababa, Ziggurat.

Kish (Sumer), the Glossary

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See also

History of Babylon Governorate

Kish civilization

Populated places disestablished in the 13th century

Populated places established in the 6th millennium BC

Sumerian cities

References