Larsa
Sign in to save250px|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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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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- Instance of
- city-state
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Dhi Qar Governorate
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Hammurabi's Babylonia RU.svg
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Early Bronze Age
- Early Dynastic IIIB
- Akkadian period
- Ur III period
- Middle Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- List of rulers
- Archaeology
- See also
- References
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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.
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.
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1850 archaeological discoveriesArchaeological sites in IraqCity-statesFormer populated places in IraqHistory of Dhi Qar GovernorateIsin-Larsa periodLarsaPopulated places established in the 3rd millennium BCStates and territories disestablished in the 17th century BCStates and territories established in the 20th century BCSumerian cities