HARADUM
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Babylonia
at the time of Hammurabi, ca. 1792 - 1750 BC
Haradum
(modern Khirbit ed-Diniye, Iraq) was an ancient Near East city on
the middle Euphrates about 90 kilometers southeast of Mari.
History
:
While the site of Haradum was occupied earlier, being mentioned
in texts from Mari, it did not grow into a proper town until the
18th century BC under the control of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
The earliest dated record is from the 26th year of King Samsu-iluna
of Babylon. Tablets from the reign of Abi-eshuh, Ammi-ditana, Ammi-saduqa,
and Samsu-Ditana have also been found at Haradum. The town of Haradum
was destroyed during the reign of Samsu-Ditana.
Haradum
is noted for being one of the earliest examples of a planned city,
with a square layout and straight streets.
Archaeology
:
The site of Haradum is small, about 1.5 hectares in area. It was
excavated for six seasons in the 1980s by a team from the Délégation
Archéologique Française en Iraq led by Christine Kepinski-Lecomte.
The work was a salvage operation in response to dam construction.
Source
:
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Haradum