Kutha
Sign in to saveKutha, Cuthah, Cuth or Cutha (, Sumerian: Gû.du8.aki, Akkadian: Kûtu), modern Tell Ibrahim (also Tell Habl Ibrahlm) (), is an archaeological site in Babil Governorate, Iraq. The site of Tell Uqair (possibly ancient Urum) is just to the north. The city was occupied from the Akkadian period until the Hellenistic period. The city-god of Kutha was Meslamtaea, related to Nergal, and his temple there was named E-Meslam.
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- Ancient site.name
- Tell Ibrahim
- Ancient site.native_name
- Kutha
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Cuthah
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Babil Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.region
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient site.type
- tell
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1881
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Hormuzd Rassam
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- Archaeology
- History
- Early Bronze
- Akkadian period
- Ur III period
- Middle Bronze
- Old Babylonian period
- Late Bronze
- Kassite period
- Iron Age
- Neo-Babylonian period
- In Religious Tradition
- See also
- References
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Kutha, Cuthah, Cuth or Cutha (, Sumerian: Gû.du8.aki, Akkadian: Kûtu), modern Tell Ibrahim (also Tell Habl Ibrahlm) (), is an archaeological site in Babil Governorate, Iraq. The site of Tell Uqair (possibly ancient Urum) is just to the north. The city was occupied from the Akkadian period until the Hellenistic period. The city-god of Kutha was Meslamtaea, related to Nergal, and his temple there was named E-Meslam.
==Archaeology== Kutha lies on the right bank of the eastern branch of the Upper Euphrates river, north of Nippur and around 25 miles northeast of the ancient cite of Babylon. The site consists of two settlement mounds. The larger main mound is 0.75 miles long and crescent-shaped. A smaller mound is located to the west, in the hollow of the crescent. The two mounds, as is typical in the region, are separated by the dry bed of an ancient canal, probably the Shatt en-Nil but possibly the Irninna, in any case leading from the Euphrates.