KISURRA
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Kisurra
location in Iraq
Coordinates
:
31°50'17 N 45°28'50 E
Kisurra
(modern Tell Abu Hatab, Al-Qadisiyyah Governorate, Iraq) was an
ancient Sumerian tell (hill city) situated on the west bank of the
Euphrates, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of Shuruppak.
History
:
Kisurra was established ca. 2700 BC, during the Sumerian Early Dynastic
II period. The southern end of the Isinnitum Canal was joined back
into the Euphrates at Kisurra. The city lasted as a center for commerce
and transport through the Akkadian and part of the Babylonian Empires,
until cuneiform texts and excavation show a decline during the time
of Hammurabi (c.1800 BCE).
Archaeology
:
German archaeologists, beginning with Robert Koldewey in 1902, have
found many cuneiform tablets from Tell Abu Hatab.
Source
:
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Kisurra