Lagash

Lagash or Sirpurla was one of the oldest cities of Sumer and later Babylonia. It is represented by a rather low, long line of ruin mounds, now known as Tell al-Hiba in Iraq, northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk. It is positioned on the dry bed of an ancient canal, some 3 miles (5 km) east of the Shatt-el-Haj, and a little less than 10 miles (16 km) north of the modern town of Shatra in the district administered from Nasiriyah.

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Sumer - Babylonia - Tell al-Hiba - Iraq - Euphrates - Tigris - Uruk - Shatra - Nasiriyah

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THE important -- 19:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)heather Excavations

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Lagash ruins were discovered in 1877 by Ernest de Sarzec, at that time French consul at Basra, who was allowed, by the Montefich chief, Nasir Pasha, the first Wali-Pasha or governor-general of Basra, to excavate at his pleasure in the territories subject to that official. At the outset on his own, and later as a representative of the French government, under a Turkish firman, de Sarzec continued excavations at this site, with various intermissions, until his death in 1901, when the work was continued under the supervision of Gaston Cros. The principal excavations were made in two larger mounds, one of them proving to be the site of the temple E-Ninnu - shrine of the patron god of Lagash, Nin-girsu or Ninib.

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Ruins - 1877 - Ernest de Sarzec - Basra - Nasir Pasha - Gaston Cros - Ninib

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Later French archeological expeditions were led by Henri de Genouillac (1929-31) and Andre Parrot (1931-33).

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Henri de Genouillac - Andre Parrot

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