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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Lagash or Shirpurla , ancient city of Sumer , S Mesopotamia, now located at Telloh, SE Iraq. Lagash was flourishing by c.2400 BC, but traces of habitation go back at least to the 4th millennium BC After the fall of Akkad (2180 BC), when the rest of Mesopotamia was in a state of chaos, Lagash was able to maintain peace and prosperity under its ruler Gudea. Excavations begun on the site in 1877 revealed the beautiful sculptures of Gudea, which had been dedicated to the city's patron goddess, Ningirsu. Thousands of inscribed tablets were also found at the site. Author not available,... Read more

Lagash
...Founded in the Ubaid period ( 5200– 3500 ), it came under the control of Sargon of Akkad. It later prospered under Gudea, a governor nominally subject to the Guti. It was occupied as late as the Parthian era (247 – 224). Lagash Lagash Lagash Read more

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	Editorial: The threshold of the millennium ; ...told- 58 years ago - a story about the planet Lagash, in revolution in a complex system with six suns. There is no night on Lagash, light is permanent. As a consequence of the complexity of Lagash's revolution in such a system, the Law of Universal... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...described as the theologies of Nippur, Lagash, and Eridu.(2) The first and oldest...Sumerian King List.(8) The theology of Lagash revolved around Ningirsu, the lord of Girsu, the capital city of the Lagash city-state, a leading actor in the outgoing... Read more
	(book review) (book review) ; ...III (ca. 2100-2000); and the state of Lagash, in the southeast of Sumer, with its major urban centers of Girsu, Lagash, and Nina. Whereas the first two, which...widely distributed sources, the place of Lagash in Babylonian history is controversial... Read more
	The Griffin. ; Mythical Beasts of the Middle East: Part I Four thousand years ago, Gudea, the ruler of Lagash, had a dream. There was a man, who was a huge as heaven, as huge as earth. Underneath his feet was a very large bird--part eagle... Read more
	Beware the Ides of April: high taxes - and the decline and fall of practically everybody. ; ...now Iraq. The dawn of history--and of tax history--is recorded on clay cones excavated in the town of Lagash in Sumer. The leadership of Lagash instituted heavy taxation during a terrible war. When the war ended, the tax men refused to give up their... Read more
	Descended From Antiquity; At the Sackler, Mespotamia's Ancient Wonders ; ...reign over the show - of King Gudea of Lagash. Something in his bearing, in his posture...the Mall is from the 1920s. Gudea ruled Lagash 4100 years ago. This exhibition is not...years had passed since another king of Lagash, Ur-Nanshe was his name, had built a temple... Read more
	Picturing Ancient Nabada ; ...During this time, political and economic power in the region was concentrated in a few large urban centers including Ki'sh, Lagash, Umma, Ur, and Uruk in modem Iraq and Chuera, EbIa, Mari, Nagar, Urkesh, Nabada, and Tuttul in Syria. Nabada and nearby cities... Read more
	Jose Luis Lezama / Iraq ayer y hoy.(Nacional) ; ...legendaria Babilonia, y a las primeras ciudades de las que tiene registro la historia humana, como son los casos de Eridú, Lagash y Ur, en la que vino al mundo Abraham (patriarca de los cristianos, judíos y musulmanes), cuna además de la civilizaci... Read more
	Looted treasure returning to Iraq national museum ; ...statue of the Sumerian king Entemena of Lagash, was stolen in the days after the fall...other artifacts.The statue of Entemena of Lagash is among the most important artifacts...times to symbolize Ur's emancipation from Lagash.One of the experts who authenticated the... Read more
	The historian and the Sumerian Gods. (Thorkild Jacobsen speech) (Transcript) ; ...dispute between two Sumerian city-states, Lagash with its god Ningirsu, and Umma, with...stelae and carried them into the plain of Lagash. Enlil's warrior, Ningirsu, did at his...with Ush, why he would carry stelae into Lagash territory, and whether that was a good... Read more

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