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Umm al-Wawiya

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Sep 13, 2025 05:06 PM — History
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Umm al-Wawiya is an archaeological site in present-day Iraq. It is located in the vicinity of the ancient site of Uruk, and some scholars have argued that Umm al-Wawiya could be the site of the ancient town of Durum.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/296252167

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Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Umm al-Wawiya: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/296252167> [accessed: 12 February 2026] 

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