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Ancient Lagash
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![]() Davide Nadali is Associate Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Holly Pittman is Director of the Final Publication Project of the Al Hiba Excavations and Director of the Lagash Archaeological Project Andrea Polcaro is Professor and Researcher in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Perugia University, Italy |
The State of Lagash was one of the major political powers in the Sumerian world of the 3rd millennium BC, with archaeological attestations at least since the 5th millennium BC. Located in present-day southern Iraq, this State incorporated three main cities: Girsu (Tello), Lagash (Tell al-Hiba), and Nigin (Tell Zurghul). The volume presents the results of studies and excavations carried on in these sites until 2015, providing new data for their historical interpretation. The volume collects contributions to the research at al-Hiba, under the supervision of H. Pittman, a section dedicated to the first archaeological campaign undertaken at the site of Nigin under the direction of D. Nadali and A. Polcaro, and the research on the site of Girsu under the joint direction of S. Rey and F. Husain. … |
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Ancient Lagash, pp. 87-114, 2022/12/27
Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016
In this paper, we discuss the preliminary results of the Tell al-Hiba Publication Project’s reanalysis of the excavations of the Tell al-Hiba Expedition in Areas A, B, and G at Tell al-Hiba, ancient Lagash. This work occurred as part of an ongoing project to produce final reports on the Expedition’s six seasons of excavation at the site. For each area, we describe the architectural levels, discuss the contents, and offer chronological and functional interpretations. We also give new or updated plans for some of the structures. The excavators discussed many of these remains in preliminary reports. As a result of this reanalysis, we offer some interpretations that differ from those published previously – most notably, those concerning the functions of the buildings in Area B, the Bagara of Ningirsu. Additionally, we discuss in greater detail a number of contexts that received only cursory mention in earlier works.
Keywords: Bagara of Ningirsu, Ibgal of Inana, religious architecture, Early Dynastic I, Early Dynastic III