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Larsa and Tell el-‘Uwaili (Iraq), Preliminary Results (2019-2021)

Regis Vallet

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After thirty years of interruption, the French mission to Larsa and Tell el ‘Uwaili resumed its fieldwork in 2019, for two seasons of one month each. In the fall of 2021, a third campaign of the same duration could take place, the results of which are currently under development. In Larsa, several complementary surveys changed our understanding of the site, revealing in particular the network of channels supplying the city. The excavations focused on the sector north of the E-Babbar, the temple of the Sun-God Shamash, patron deity of Larsa, where two trenches were opened. In Trench B50, immediately north of the E-Babbar, below a very fragmentary Hellenistic temple, lay a major temple of the Old-Babylonian city, which remains to be identified. It is provided with massive mudbrick walls (5.6m wide at most) preserved in height up to the first storey of the building in some rooms (4.5m high). More to the north, two large fired bricks dwellings are being explored, B48 and B49. In 2021, a third trench was opened, east of the ziggurat, across the Grand Canal of the city recently discovered. In ‘Uwaili, a new trench was open in the continuation of the excavations undertaken in the 80s on the north flank of the Tell where the Ubaid 0 levels (7th millennium BC) are close to the surface. After three short seasons, 575 square meters were cleared and five architectural levels identified. The structures of level 5 correspond to the last Ubaid 0 level of occupation. The habitat is much denser than expected, and combines dwellings with small associated storages and workshops.
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hal-04372413 , version 1 (04-01-2024)

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Regis Vallet. Larsa and Tell el-‘Uwaili (Iraq), Preliminary Results (2019-2021). N. Marchetti, F. Cavaliere, E. Cirelli, C. D’Orazio, G. Giacosa, M. Guidetti, E. Mariani (eds). Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 2, Harrassowitz Verlag, pp.629-646, 2023, 978-3-447-11903-0. ⟨hal-04372413⟩

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