Larsa

Also known as Tell as-Senkereh

250px|right|thumb|Mesopotamia in the time of [[Hammurabi]] Larsa (, read Larsamki), also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon (Gk. Λαραγχων) by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult of the sun god Utu with his temple E-babbar. It lies some southeast of Uruk in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate, near the east bank of the Shatt-en-Nil canal at the site of the modern settlement Tell as-Senkereh or Sankarah.

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Larsa is a human settlement and archaeological site located in the Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq. It is situated on a hill and has functioned as a city-state. The site is associated with Sumerian culture and was active from 4000 BCE to 100 BCE. Archaeological excavation is a significant event recorded for the location.

The settlement is also known by the name Qal‘at Mufīs and is listed in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. According to GeoNames, the population is 0. The area is in the UTC+03:00 time zone.

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Place details

Region: محافظة ذي قار
Country: العراق
Population: 0

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PM10: 86.6 µg/m³

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Key facts

Ancient site.name: Larsa
Ancient site.map_type: Iraq
Ancient site.relief: yes
Ancient site.location: Tell as-Senkereh, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq
Ancient site.region: Mesopotamia
Ancient site.type: Settlement

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Early Bronze Age
Early Dynastic IIIB
Akkadian period
Ur III period
Middle Bronze Age
Iron Age
List of rulers
Archaeology
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Larsa is thought to be the source of a number of tablets involving Babylonian mathematics, including the Plimpton 322 tablet that contains patterns of Pythagorean triples.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Larsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.