Malgium
Sign in to saveMalgium (also Malkum or Malgûm) (Ĝalgi’a or Ĝalgu’a in Sumerian, and Malgû(m) in Akkadian) is an ancient Mesopotamian city tentatively identified as Tell Yassir (one of a group of tells called collectively Tulūl al-Fāj) which thrived especially in the Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BC - 1600 BC. Malgium formed a small city-state in an area where the edges of the territories controlled by Larsa, Babylon and Elam converged. Inscribed in cuneiform as ma-al-gi-imKI (or ma-al-gu-umKI), its chief deities were Ea (whose temple was called Enamtila) and Damkina. A temple of Ulmašītum is known to have been
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Malgium
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Tulūl al-Fāj / Tell Yassir
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.map_size
- 200
- Ancient site.location
- Iraq
- Ancient site.type
- settlement
- Ancient site.epochs
- Late Chalcolithic, Bronze Age
- Ancient site.cultures
- Ubaid, Uruk, Ur III, Old Babylonian
- Ancient site.excavations
- 2018, 2022, 2024
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Ahmed Ali Jawad, Lucio Milano
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
- Ancient site.ownership
- Public
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
13 sectionsContents
- Tell Yassir
- Tulūl al-Fāj
- History
- Akkadian Period
- Ur III Period
- Isin-Larsa Period
- Old Babylonian Period
- Rulers
- Tell Abu Antiq
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Malgium (also Malkum or Malgûm) (Ĝalgi’a or Ĝalgu’a in Sumerian, and Malgû(m) in Akkadian) is an ancient Mesopotamian city tentatively identified as Tell Yassir (one of a group of tells called collectively Tulūl al-Fāj) which thrived especially in the Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BC - 1600 BC. Malgium formed a small city-state in an area where the edges of the territories controlled by Larsa, Babylon and Elam converged. Inscribed in cuneiform as ma-al-gi-imKI (or ma-al-gu-umKI), its chief deities were Ea (whose temple was called Enamtila) and Damkina. A temple of Ulmašītum is known to have been there. There was also a temple to the goddess Bēlet-ilī called Ekitusgestu as well as a temple to the god Anum. During the time of one ruler Malgium was written differently, ma3-al-kaKI. The unlacted town of Ibrat is thought to have been near Malgium.
Tablets illegally excavated from Malgium have begun to appear on the antiquities market. One, in a private collection, had a new, second, year name for Imgur-Sîn "The year the ‘Tigris/Zubi-Canal-of-Imgur-Sîn’ was dug by King dImgur-Sîn". Note the divine determinative for the rulers name.