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Larsa

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke

Contributors: Sean Gillies, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

Last modified Jan 01, 2017 01:11 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Larsa was an important city of ancient Sumeria. It was a center of the cult of Utu, the sun god.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912897

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.285833, 45.853611

Locations:

DARMC location 21512 (750 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Larsa (750 BC - AD 300)
Larsa (6200 BC - 140 BC)
Larsa (6200 BC - 140 BC)
Larsam (Attested dates needed)
Sankara (6200 BC - 3750 BC)
Senkere (2000 BC - 650 BC)
as-Sankara (6200 BC - 540 BC)

Makes a connection with:

None

Has a connection with:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

See Also:

Wikipedia, Larsa

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 B2 Larsa

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tell Sinkara IRQ

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Suggested citation:
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, Sean Gillies, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Larsa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912897> [accessed: 23 June 2017]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912897 |title=Places: 912897 (Larsa) |author=Hausleiter, A., M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke |accessdate=June 23, 2017 7:57 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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