Tell Agrab

Coordinates: 33°20′20″N 44°52′28″E / 33.33889°N 44.87444°E / 33.33889; 44.87444
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Tell Agrab
Tell Agrab is located in Iraq
Tell Agrab
Shown within Iraq
LocationDiyala Governorate, Iraq
Coordinates33°20′20″N 44°52′28″E / 33.33889°N 44.87444°E / 33.33889; 44.87444
Typesettlement
History
Founded3rd millennium BC
PeriodsBronze Age
CulturesJemdet Nasr, Early Dynastic, Akkadian, Larsa
Site notes
Excavation dates1936-1937
ArchaeologistsSeton Lloyd
ConditionRuined
OwnershipPublic
Public accessYes

Tell Agrab (or Aqrab) is a

Tell Asmar
, ancient Eshnunna.

History

Stamp seal with Striding Figure Holding Batons, Drill Technique, Tell Agrab. Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago

Tell Agrab was occupied during the Jemdet Nasr and Early Dynastic periods through the Akkadian and Larsa periods. It was during the Early Dynastic period that monumental building occurred, including the Shara Temple. There is no evidence that it was occupied after the end of the third millennium BC.[1]

Archaeology

Tell Agrab is located east of ancient Eshnunna

The site of Tell Agrab is encompassed by a 500 by 600 metres (1,600 by 2,000 ft) rectangle with a height of around 12 metres (39 ft). It was surrounded by a fortification wall made of plano-convex bricks and with defensive towers every 19 meters.

onagers, one of the earliest examples known.[6] Three cuneiform tablets in Old Akkadian were also found[7] as well as "two small bronze statuettes of men and one of a woman (all with inlaid eyes of mother of pearl)" as well as tools and weapons made of bronze and the remains of a copper statue that would have originally been 4/5 life size.[8]

Gallery

  • Kneeling Nude Male Holding Vase on Head, Tell Agrab, Shara Temple, Early Dynastic period, 2900-2700 BC, calcite - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07462
    Kneeling Nude Male Holding Vase on Head, Tell Agrab, Shara Temple, Early Dynastic period, 2900-2700 BC, calcite - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07462
  • Fragment of a Sumerian male statue from the Shara Temple at Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
    Fragment of a Sumerian male statue from the Shara Temple at Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
  • Head of a Sumerian woman from the Shara Temple at Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
    Head of a Sumerian woman from the Shara Temple at Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
  • Male head from Shara Temple, Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
    Male head from Shara Temple, Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
  • Female statuette from Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
    Female statuette from Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
  • Gilgamesh wrestling two bulls, from Shara Temple, Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
    Gilgamesh wrestling two bulls, from Shara Temple, Tell Agrab, Iraq Museum
  • Quadriga consists of a chariot and a charioteer with four onagers. From Tell Agrab, Iraq. Early Dynastic period, 2600-2370 BCE. Iraq Museum
    Quadriga consists of a chariot and a charioteer with four onagers. From Tell Agrab, Iraq. Early Dynastic period, 2600-2370 BCE. Iraq Museum
  • Cylinder seal, white marble. Two goats, two shrines, and stars. Jemdet Nasr period, 3100-2900 BCE. From Tell Agrab, Iraq. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq
    Cylinder seal, white marble. Two goats, two shrines, and stars. Jemdet Nasr period, 3100-2900 BCE. From Tell Agrab, Iraq. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq

See also

  • Cities of the ancient Near East

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 1153687033
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  2. ^ Allen, Francis O. "The Oriental Institute Archaeological Report on the Near East: Fourth Quarter, 1935", The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 201–14, 1936
  3. ^ "The Oriental Institute Archeological Report on the near East: First Quarter, 1937", The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 256–77, 1937
  4. ISBN 978-1-57506-651-6
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  5. OCLC 249158786
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  6. OCLC 6031713
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  7. ^ [1] I.J. Gelb, "Sargonic Texts from the Diyala Region", Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary, vol. 1, Chicago, 1961
  8. ^ Nims, Charles F, "The Oriental Institute Archeological Report on the near East: Fourth Quarter, 1936", The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 199–216, 1937

Further reading

  • [2] Pinhas Delougaz, Harold D. Hill, and Seton Lloyd, "Private Houses and Graves in the Diyala Region", Oriental Institute Publications 88, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967
  • Henri Frankfort, "Revelations of Early Mesopotamian Culture. New Discoveries at Tell Agrab; An Ass-drawn Chariot, and Art Relics from an Early Dynastic Temple with indications of Bull-worship and Connections with Ancient India," The Illustrated London News, November 6, pp. 792–95 and col. pl. I, 1937
  • [3] Gonçalves, Vera, and Isabel Gomes de Almeida, "The Divine Feminine in Mesopotamia: the rosette/star and the reed bundle symbols in early Diyala’s glyptic (c. 3100-2600 BC)" Images, in Perceptions and Productions in and of Antiquity, pp. 156–176, 2923
  • Ch. P., "Les Fouilles de Tell-Agrab", Revue Archéologique, vol. 11, pp. 88–90, 1938
  • Evans, Jean M. (2007). "The Square Temple at Tell Asmar and the Construction of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia, ca. 2900–2350 B.C.E." American Journal of Archaeology. 111 (4): 599–632.
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  • L., “A Female Clay Figurine from Tell Agrab (Iraq) in the Vatican Museum,” Direzi-one dei Musei Stato della Città del Vaticano, vol.22, pp. 1–11, 2002

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