Larsa (modern Tell as-Senkereh), a city located ca. 21 km east of Uruk, was an important southern Mesopotamian cult center of the sun-god (Utu/Šamaš). Its principal religious structure was called Ebabbar, just like the Šamaš temple in the northern Babylonian city Sippar. The Sumerian ceremonial names of some of Larsa’s other religious building are mentioned in two first-millennium-BC lists of ziggurats and some royal inscriptions, especially from the Isin-Larsa Period (ca. 2025–1763 BC) — when the city of Larsa temporarily became a dominant political power (ca. 1924–1763 BC) — and the Neo-Babylonian Period. The most important of these, at least in the sixth century BC, was the temple tower Edurana, which sometimes went by the name Eduranki. At the beginning of the second millennium BC (ca. 1924 BC), under a man called Gungunum (r. 1932–1906 BC), Larsa broke free of Isin’s dominance over it and established its own political dynasty. Although it grew more powerful than its former overlord, Larsa never accumulated a significant amount of territory. At its peak, under the authority of Rīm-Sîn I (r. 1822–1763 BC), it controlled only ten to fifteen other city-states. This city’s political dominance, as well as its dynastic line, was brought to an end by Hammu-rāpi of Babylon (r. 1792–1750 BC). After 1763 BC, Larsa was never again a major political player in Babylonia.
Larsa
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تل السنكرة
as-Sankara, as-Sankarah, al-Sankara, al-Sankarah, es-Senkere, Tell Sinkara, es-Senkereh, el-Senkereh, el-Senkere, Sankara, Sankarah, Senkere, Senkereh, Tell as-Senkereh, Tall Sankara
Larsa
Larsa, UD.UNUG.KI
Sankara
Larsam
Larsa, UD.UNUG.KI
Senkere
Tell Sinkara IRQ
BAtlas 93 B2 Larsa
RLAss Larsa
Iraq Significant Sites 098. Tell Senkereh (ancient: Larsa)
Wikipedia (English) Isin-Larsa period
Wikipedia (English) Larsa
DARMC 21512
Le Doaré 2023
Larsa (modern Tell as-Senkereh), a city located ca. 21 km east of Uruk, was an important southern Mesopotamian cult center of the sun-god (Utu/Šamaš). Its principal religious structure was called Ebabbar, just like the Šamaš temple in the northern Babylonian city Sippar. The Sumerian ceremonial names of some of Larsa’s other religious building are mentioned in two first-millennium-BC lists of ziggurats and some royal inscriptions, especially from the Isin-Larsa Period (ca. 2025–1763 BC) — when the city of Larsa temporarily became a dominant political power (ca. 1924–1763 BC) — and the Neo-Babylonian Period. The most important of these, at least in the sixth century BC, was the temple tower Edurana, which sometimes went by the name Eduranki. At the beginning of the second millennium BC (ca. 1924 BC), under a man called Gungunum (r. 1932–1906 BC), Larsa broke free of Isin’s dominance over it and established its own political dynasty. Although it grew more powerful than its former overlord, Larsa never accumulated a significant amount of territory. At its peak, under the authority of Rīm-Sîn I (r. 1822–1763 BC), it controlled only ten to fifteen other city-states. This city’s political dominance, as well as its dynastic line, was brought to an end by Hammu-rāpi of Babylon (r. 1792–1750 BC). After 1763 BC, Larsa was never again a major political player in Babylonia.
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dare:feature=major settlement
Sumerian
Babylonian
dare:ancient=1
ANE
B. Siewert-Mayer
W. Röllig
H. Kopp
P. Flensted Jensen
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 B2 Larsa
Larsa
OSM location of Sankara
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-5500
Mesopotamia [[-2950,-2350]]
Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (2950–2350 BC)
Late Chalcolithic-ED II Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk-Jemdet Nasr-ED Mesopotamia [[-5500,-2600]]
Ubaid-Early Dynastic II Mesopotamia (5500–2600 BC)
OSM Node 2487982264
Representative location based on OpenStreetMap.
-2350
OpenStreetMap (Node 2487982264, version 3, osm:changeset=51925905, 2017-09-11T04:17:30Z)
Middle Assyrian/Middle Babylonian/Kassite Mesopotamia, LBA-Early Iron Age Mesopotamia, incl. Sea Peoples [[-1600,-1000]]
Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC)
Larsa
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-750
The Archaic period in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is seen to begin in the year 750 and end in the year 550 before the birth of Christ. [[-750, -550]]
Archaic (Greco-Roman; 750-550 BCE/BC)
The Classical period in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 550 and end in the year 330 before the birth of Christ. [[-550, -330]]
Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC)
The Roman period (i.e., the early Roman Empire) in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 30 before the birth of Christ and to end in the year 300 after the birth of Christ. [[-30, 300]]
Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300)
The Hellenistic period in Greek history and the middle-to-late Republican period in Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 330 and end in the year 30 before the birth of Christ. [[-330, -30]]
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC)
300
P. Flensted Jensen
Larsa
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 B2 Larsa
Sankara
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-6200
Copper Age Mesopotamia, Halaf-Ubaid-Early Uruk Mesopotamia [[-6200,-3750]]
Chalcolithic Mesopotamia (6200–3750 BC)
B. Siewert-Mayer
W. Röllig
H. Kopp
A place name from the TAVO Index (Vol. 3, p. 1433)
-3750
Sankara
TAVO Index
ME [[-720,-540]]
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC)
Our present, modern era. [[1700, 2100]]
Modern (AD 1700-Present)
Larsam
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B. Siewert-Mayer
H. Kopp
W. Röllig
A place name from the TAVO Index (Vol. 2, p. 987)
Larsam
TAVO Index
Mesopotamia [[-2000,-1600]]
Old Babylonian/Assyrian Mesopotamia (2000–1600 BC)
Larsa
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-6200
Iran [[-2000,-650]]
Middle Bronze-Early Iron Age Iran (2000–650 BC)
Akkadian—Neo-Sumerian Mesopotamia [[-2335,-2000]]
Akkadian-Ur III Mesopotamia (2335–2000 BC)
Macedonian—Seleucid/Ptolemaic/Attalid/Greco-Bactrian [[-330, -140]]
Hellenistic Middle East (330–140 BC)
ME [[-540, -330]]
Achaemenid Middle East (540–330 BC)
B. Siewert-Mayer
H. Kopp
W. Röllig
A place name from the TAVO Index (Vol. 2, p. 987)
-140
UD.UNUG.KI
Larsa
TAVO Index
CIGS location of Tall al-Sankarah
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Bryce 2009 pages 410-411
Wikipedia (English) Larsa
Wikidata Q244746
Wikipedia (Arabic) لارسا
Cuneiform
ANE
Pleiades
Larsa
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-6200
H. Kopp
B. Siewert-Mayer
W. Röllig
Wikipedia (English) Larsa
A place name from the TAVO Index (Vol. 2, p. 987)
-140
UD.UNUG.KI
Larsa
TAVO Index
as-Sankara
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1700
W. Röllig
H. Kopp
B. Siewert-Mayer
A place name from the TAVO Index (Vol. 3, p. 1433)
2100
el-Senkereh
Tell Sinkara
as-Sankarah
Tall Sankara
Sankara
Tell as-Senkereh
Senkereh
Sankarah
el-Senkere
as-Sankara
es-Senkereh
Senkere
al-Sankarah
al-Sankara
es-Senkere
TAVO Index
Senkere
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-2000
W. Röllig
B. Siewert-Mayer
H. Kopp
A place name from the TAVO Index (Vol. 3, p. 1473)
-650
Senkere
TAVO Index
Tall al-Sankarah
2023-06-07T15:42:47-04:00
1700
تل السنكرة
Bryce 2009 pages 410-411
Wikipedia (English) Larsa
Wikidata Q244746
Wikipedia (Arabic) لارسا
Cuneiform
ANE
2100
Tall al-Sankarah
Pleiades
Equivalent to "inhabited place" as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: General term for places or areas occupied, modified, or planned to be inhabited by communities of human populations and that contain enough societal functions to be relatively self-sufficient. They are characterized by inhabitants living in neighboring sets of living quarters and by the place having a proper name or a locally recognized status.
settlement