Post by inimgina on Nov 11, 2016 23:22:10 GMT -5
Šuruppak (SU.KUR.RUki) was an ancient Mesopotamian city-state. The location of Šuruppak corresponds with the location of the modern site at Tell Fara in Iraq's Qadishiyah Governorate. The city was located about 35 miles south of Nippur. Šuruppak was a large city. At its height during the Early Dynastic III period (2600 BCE to 2350 BCE) Shuruppak reached a size of 200 hectares with about 35 hectares of the mound being above the 3 meter contour. The site of extends about a kilometer from north to south.
The oldest excavated layers of Šuruppak go back to the Jemdet-Nasr period. Šuruppak was the 5th city to have held the seat of kingship in the Sumerian King List. Ubara-Tutu was the single ruler of the dynasty which was ended by the great deluge. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ziusudra who built the boat to survive the great deluge (the Sumerian Noah) was listed as a King of Šuruppak. During the Dynastic period Šuruppak seems to have been an important grain storage and distribution site. Šuruppak had more grain silos than any of the other city-states. The site was occupied up until it was abandoned at the end of the Ur III period.
Šuruppak was a part of an alliance with Uruk, Adab, Nippur, Lagash and Umma. This alliance is what Pomponio and Visicato describe as the Hexapolis of shuruppak (Pomponio and Visicato 1994) and what Jacobsen referred to as the Kengir league (Jacobsen 1957) which is the term most scholars use.
Due to a fire a tablet-house at Šuruppak contained a large number of fired and preserved tablets. Among the many adminstrative documents there include text that deal with numbers as high as 6,580 workers, 9,660 donkeys and text showing ownership of 100 hectares of land.
The patron deity of Šuruppak was a mother goddess that was called different names such Ninlil and Sud.
The oldest excavated layers of Šuruppak go back to the Jemdet-Nasr period. Šuruppak was the 5th city to have held the seat of kingship in the Sumerian King List. Ubara-Tutu was the single ruler of the dynasty which was ended by the great deluge. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ziusudra who built the boat to survive the great deluge (the Sumerian Noah) was listed as a King of Šuruppak. During the Dynastic period Šuruppak seems to have been an important grain storage and distribution site. Šuruppak had more grain silos than any of the other city-states. The site was occupied up until it was abandoned at the end of the Ur III period.
Šuruppak was a part of an alliance with Uruk, Adab, Nippur, Lagash and Umma. This alliance is what Pomponio and Visicato describe as the Hexapolis of shuruppak (Pomponio and Visicato 1994) and what Jacobsen referred to as the Kengir league (Jacobsen 1957) which is the term most scholars use.
Due to a fire a tablet-house at Šuruppak contained a large number of fired and preserved tablets. Among the many adminstrative documents there include text that deal with numbers as high as 6,580 workers, 9,660 donkeys and text showing ownership of 100 hectares of land.
The patron deity of Šuruppak was a mother goddess that was called different names such Ninlil and Sud.
