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ایسن
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Papiermuseum Basel 2008 (1).jpg
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- Commons category
- Isin
- culture
- Sumer
- different from
- International Securities Identification Number
- start time
- 4000-00-00
- end time
- 1000-00-00
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