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Isin
Sign in to saveIsin (, modern Arabic: Ishan al-Bahriyat) is an archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq which was the location of the Ancient Near East city of Isin, occupied from the late 4th millennium Uruk period up until at least the late 1st millennium BC Neo-Babylonian period. It lies about southeast of the modern city of Al Diwaniyah.
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Isin
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Ishan al-Bahriyat
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.region
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.epochs
- Early Dynastic, Isin-Larsa, Old Babylonian, Kassite, Neo-Babylonian
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1924, 1926, 1973-1989
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Stephen Herbert Langdon, Raymond P. Dougherty, Barthel Hrouda
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19 sectionsContents
- Archaeology
- History
- Chalcolithic
- Early Bronze Age
- Early Dynastic period
- Akkadian period
- Ur III period
- Middle Bronze Age
- Isin-Larsa period
- Old Babylonian period
- Late Bronze Age
- Kassite period
- Iron and Classical Age
- Culture and literature
- List of rulers
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Isin (, modern Arabic: Ishan al-Bahriyat) is an archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq which was the location of the Ancient Near East city of Isin, occupied from the late 4th millennium Uruk period up until at least the late 1st millennium BC Neo-Babylonian period. It lies about southeast of the modern city of Al Diwaniyah.
The tutelary deity of Isin, dating back to at least the Early Dynastic period, was the healing goddess Gula with a major temple (, E-gal-ma) sited there as well as smaller installations for the related gods of Ninisina and Sud.
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