Umma
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: B. Siewert-Mayer, W. Röllig, H. Kopp
Creators: B. Siewert-Mayer, W. Röllig, H. Kopp
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, Francis Deblauwe, Rune Rattenborg, Ryan Horne, Eric Kansa
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 17, 2023 09:22 AM
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History
Umma was an important ancient city of Sumer but has not been scientifically excavated. The mainstream of scholarly opinion associates the ancient site with Tell Jokha, Iraq, located in Iraq's Northwestern Dhi Qar Governorate. This area is remote and is associated with a network of ancient canals. Tell Jokha measures about 1,500 meters in diameter.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/44626252
31.65845, 45.893
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tall Yukhah (6500 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tall Jūka (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Umma part of (regional) Sumer (2950 BC - 2000 BC)
- Shara Temple at Umma located at Umma (2500 BC - 1500 BC)
settlement, archaeological site
TAVO Index
GANE OBJECT 63828. Umma was an ancient city in Sumer. Scholars continue to debate the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site. The site is the ongoing target of systematic looting.
B. Siewert-Mayer, W. Röllig, H. Kopp, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, Francis Deblauwe, Rune Rattenborg, Ryan Horne, and Eric Kansa, 'Umma: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/44626252> [accessed: 13 May 2024]
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