Eridu
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Carolin Johansson, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, P. Flensted Jensen, B. Siewert-Mayer, Rune Rattenborg, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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History
Eridu was an ancient city of Sumeria and perhaps one of the first true cities. The site is settled from ca. 5300 B.C. onward. Eridu was located approximately 12 km southwest of Ur and was the southernmost of a conglomeration of Sumerian cities that grew up around temple complexes.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912845
30.8199905513, 45.9956430119
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Abū Shahraīn (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- centerpoint of main tell of Eridu (6500 BC - 3800 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Eridug (5000 BC - AD 499) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Abu Šahrain (2000 BC - 650 BC)
- أبو شهرين (Abū Shahraīn: Arabic, modern)
- Abū Šahrain (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
- EUS 100 (1600 BC - 1000 BC)
- Eridu (750 BC - 330 BC)
- Eridu (Akkadian, 6200 BC - 540 BC)
- Eridu Šimāl (Akkadian, 2950 BC - 1600 BC)
- Eridu Šimāl (Modern Standard Arabic, 2950 BC - 1600 BC)
- Eridu Ǧanūb (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
- Eridu Ǧanūb (Modern Standard Arabic, 2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Eridu Ǧanūb I (Modern Standard Arabic, 2335 BC - 2000 BC)
- Eridu Ǧanūb II (Modern Standard Arabic, 2335 BC - 2000 BC)
- Tall Abī Šahrain (Modern Standard Arabic, 2000 BC - 650 BC)
- Tall Abū Šahrain (Arabic, 2950 BC - 2000 BC)
- Tall Abū Šahrēn (Arabic, 6200 BC - 2600 BC)
- Eridu located on Euphrates (river) (unspecified date range)
- Eridu part of (regional) Sumer (6500 BC - 2000 BC)
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settlement, archaeological site
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 C3 Eridu
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Abu Shahrein IRQ. The site of Eridu was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016. The statement on justifying the inclusion reads, in part, "The archaeological cities of Uruk and Ur and the Tell Eridu archaeological site form part of the remains of the Sumerian cities and settlements that developed in southern Mesopotamia between the 4th and the 3rd millennium BCE in the marshy delta of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers."
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, Sean Gillies, Carolin Johansson, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, P. Flensted Jensen, B. Siewert-Mayer, Rune Rattenborg, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Eridu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912845> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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