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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. 183-194, 2022/12/27
Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016
Girsu (modern Tello) was considered to be the sanctuary of the patron-god Ningirsu and the sacred metropolis of the Lagash state. Due to the site having been extensively excavated between 1877 and 1933 by four French expeditions and heavily plundered especially between 1909 and 1929, its topographical layout has considerably changed over the past 138 years, i.e., since the first exploration by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877. Today massive amounts of excavation spoil completely conceal, at least for the central mounds of the site, any significant landscape features of the archaic city. A new interdisciplinary research project re-examined the archaeological evidence by means of remote sensing, enhanced by ground reconnaissance, new site explorations, and the reassessment of the textual sources, leading to a reconstruction of the city’s ancient landscape. This paper’s primary aim is to present the first results of this research.
Keywords: Girsu, Lagash, Gudea, Early Dynastic, Sumerians