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Tell Umm al-Aqarib

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Gabriel Mckee, Jamie Novotny
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jan 30, 2025 10:21 AM — History
Tell Umm al-Aqarib is the site of an ancient Sumerian city-state ca. 2300 - 2000 BCE of unknown identification.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/533622483

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This archaeological site is located approximately 7 km. southeast of Umma in Iraq's Eastern Dhi Qar Governorate. The material on the tell ranges in date from Ubaid to Early Dynastic. The site was focus of excavation in the 1990s. It covers some 5 square km. and the tell rises to about 20 meters. Remains of a large administrative structure (palace?) and a temple (Temple H) have been identified. The site has been the victim of extensive looting.


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Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Mckee, and Jamie Novotny, 'Tell Umm al-Aqarib: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/533622483> [accessed: 07 December 2025] 

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