Mashkan-shapir
Mashkan-shapir (Maškan-šāpir) (modern Tell Abu Duwari, Al Qadisyah Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient tell roughly north of Nippur and around southeast of Baghdad. The city god of Mashkan-shapir was Nergal and a temple named Meslam dedicated to him was built there. It is about 20 kilometers south of ancient Malgium and about 30 kilometers from ancient Larsa. The remnants of a large watercourse, thought to be an ancient bed of the Tigris or Euphrates, pass close to the city.
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Chalcolithic
- Early Bronze Age
- Middle Bronze Age
- Larsa period
- Old Babylonian period
- Iron Age
- Parthian period
- Archaeology
- See also
- Notes
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Mashkan-shapir (Maškan-šāpir) (modern Tell Abu Duwari, Al Qadisyah Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient tell roughly north of Nippur and around southeast of Baghdad. The city god of Mashkan-shapir was Nergal and a temple named Meslam dedicated to him was built there. It is about 20 kilometers south of ancient Malgium and about 30 kilometers from ancient Larsa. The remnants of a large watercourse, thought to be an ancient bed of the Tigris or Euphrates, pass close to the city.
==History== ===Chalcolithic=== Thought occupied during the Ubaid period (based on clay sickle fragments) and Uruk period (based on pottery fragments).