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Tells in Iraq matching “Al-Qadisiyah Governorate, Southern Iraq” · Mysteria

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Tells in Iraq matching “Al-Qadisiyah Governorate, Southern Iraq”

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Shuruppak (Tell Fara)

Jemdet Nasr to Early Dynastic IIIa (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Early Dynastic Sumerian

Canoe-shaped Sumerian city Tell Fara 35 miles S of Nippur, legendary home of Ziusudra (Utnapishtim).

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🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Kisurra (Tell Abu Hatab)

Early Dynastic–Old Babylonian (c.2700–1700 BCE) · Sumerian → Amorite Kisurra kingdom

Twin mound Abu Hatab (Kisurra) in the Euphrates back-marshes: Isin-Larsa era kingdom squeezed between Isin and Larsa, palatial archives (EB Kisurra texts), and ED IIIb votive stone of King Ibaya.