SHADUPPUM
![](shaduppum.jpg)
Shaduppum
shown within Iraq
Location
: Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
Region
:
Mesopotamia
Coordinates
: 33°18'34.1388 N 44°28'01.4340 E
Type
:
tell
Site
notes :
Excavation
dates : 1945–1963, 1997–1998
Archaeologists
:Taha Baqir, P. Miglus, L. Hussein
Shaduppum
(modern Tell Harmal) is an archaeological site in Baghdad Governorate
(Iraq). Nowadays, it lies within the borders of modern Baghdad.
History
of archaeological research :
![](640px-Terracotta_lion_from_Tell_Harmal,_Iraq_Museum.jpg)
Terracotta
lion from Tell Harmal, Iraq Museum
![](552px-Clay_tablet,_mathematical,_geometric-algebraic,_similar_to_the_Euclidean_geometry._From_Tell_Harmal,_Iraq._2003-1595_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg)
Clay
tablet, mathematical, geometric-algebraic, similar to the Euclidean
geometry. From Tell Harmal, Iraq. 2003 - 1595 BCE. Iraq Museum
The site, 150 meters in diameter and 5 meters high, was excavated
by Iraqi archaeologist Taha Baqir of the Department of Antiquities
and Heritage from 1945 to 1963, discovering about 2000 tablets.
Stories about Creation, the flood, The epic of Gilgamesh, and other
were inscribed on some of the tablets. In 1997 and 1998, the site
was worked by a team from Baghdad University and the German Archaeological
Institute led by Peter Miglus and Laith Hussein. Many other illegally
excavated tablets have found their way into various institutions.
Occupation
history :
Not
much is known outside the Old Babylonian times, though clearly the
location was occupied from at least the Akkadian period through
the Old Babylonian period, when it was part of the kingdom of Eshnunna
in the Diyala River area. It was an administrative center for the
kingdom and its name means "the treasury."
The
site featured a large trapezoidal wall and a temple to the goddess
Nisaba and the god Khani. Among the tablets from Tell Harmal are
two of the epic of Gilgamesh and two with parts of the Laws of Eshnunna
as well as some important mathematical tablets.
Source
:
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Shaduppum