Puzrish-Dagan
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Puzrish-Dagan (modern Drehem) (Tall ad-Duraihim) is an important archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate (Iraq). It is best known for the thousands of clay tablets that are known to have come from the site through looting during the early twentieth century.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate
- Area
- 15
- Founded by
- Shulgi
- Height
- 8.5
- Significant event
- archaeological looting
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- History of research
- The site and its environment
- Occupation history
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Puzrish-Dagan (modern Drehem) (Tall ad-Duraihim) is an important archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate (Iraq). It is best known for the thousands of clay tablets that are known to have come from the site through looting during the early twentieth century.
== History of research == Puzrish-Dagan came first to the attention of scholars when clay tablets coming from the site started to appear on the antiquities market in 1909-1910. Based on information from the antiquities traders who sold the tablets, Puzrish-Dagan could be identied with modern Drehem in Iraq. Since then, some 12,000 tablets thought to have come from the site have been published. The objects are scattered across numerous collections, for example those of the Royal Ontario Museum, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Harvard Museum, and the Iraq Museum. Stephen Herbert Langdon briefly excavated there in 1924.
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