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Places tagged “scribal school” in Iraq

2 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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🇮🇶 Iraq

🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid

Tell Harmal — Shaduppum Ziggurat Mound

Isin-Larsa, Old Babylonian · Akkadian/Amorite — Old Babylonian

Mound in eastern Baghdad now within urban fringe, excavated by Taha Baqir (1945–63), preserving complete Old Babylonian administrative quarter with 3000 cuneiform tablets covering law, mathematics…

🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid

Ziggurat of Nippur (E-kur)

Early Dynastic to Parthian (3000 BCE–250 CE; ziggurat Ur III – Kassite layers) · Sumerian → Old Babylonian → Kassite → Assyrian

Religious capital of Sumer: never politically capital but seat of Enlil, father of gods, whose temple E-kur (Mountain House) dominated canal holy city Nippur.

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Tell Harmal — Shaduppum Ziggurat Mound

Ziggurat of Nippur (E-kur)