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Tagsumma
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (c.3500–1750 BCE; peak Umma 2600–2004 BCE) · Sumerian (Umma) → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Tell Jokha is ancient Umma, fierce rival of Lagash (Girsu) in Early Dynastic border wars — Stele of Vultures (Eannatum c.2450 BCE) and the Umma–Lagash Gu'edena...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Ur III · Sumerian (Umma dynasty / Ur III province)
Shara temple ziggurat mound at Umma (Tell Jokha) — 60×45 m platform c.2500–2100 BCE, city-god Shara's E-mah towering over Umma–Lagash frontier.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (c.2900–1700 BCE; peak Lagash–Umma border war 2500–2350 BCE) · Sumerian (Umma ensi dynasty) → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Lagash's blood-enemy with Stele-of-Vultures war archive and 20,000 Ur III tablets of a date-palm oligarchy.
