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Shuruppak
Shuruppak ( , SU.KUR.RUki, "the healing place"), modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate. Shuruppak was dedicated to Ninlil, also called Sud, the goddess of grain and the air. The Early Dynastic IIIa period is also sometimes called the Fara period. Not to be confused with the Levantine archaeological site Tell el-Far'ah (South).
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Shuruppak
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Tell Fara
- Ancient site.map_type
- Near East
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- ,
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1900, 1902-1903, 1931, 1973, 2016-2018, 2022, 2024
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Robert Koldewey, Friedrich Delitzsch, Erich Schmidt, Harriet P. Martin, Adelheid Otto, and Berthold Einwag
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Jemdet Nasr period
- Early Dynastic II
- Early Dynastic III
- Akkadian period
- Ur III period
- Middle Bronze I
- Flood Myth
- Archaeology
- List of rulers
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Shuruppak ( , SU.KUR.RUki, "the healing place"), modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate. Shuruppak was dedicated to Ninlil, also called Sud, the goddess of grain and the air. The Early Dynastic IIIa period is also sometimes called the Fara period. Not to be confused with the Levantine archaeological site Tell el-Far'ah (South).
"Shuruppak" is sometimes also the name of a king of the city, legendary survivor of the Flood, and supposed author of the Instructions of Shuruppak".