Telloh

Telloh
/te loh"/, n.
a village in SE Iraq, between the lower Tigris and Euphrates: site of the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash.
Also, Tello.

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  • Telloh — Girsu, heute Tello(h), war eine antike sumerische Stadt. Geschichte Die Stadt Girsu war wohl schon im 4. Jahrtausend v. Chr. besiedelt. Schon in der Späturuk und der Dschemdet Nasr Zeit erlangte die Stadt regionale, teils überregionale Bedeutung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Telloh — Girsu Girsu et les principaux sites de la Mésopotamie à la fin du IIIe millénaire av. J. C. Girsu est une ancienne cité de Mésopotamie du sud, dont les ruines se trouvent de nos jours sur le site archéologique …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Telloh — Tel•loh [[t]tɛˈloʊ[/t]] n. ara geg a village in SE Iraq, between the lower Tigris and Euphrates: site of the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash …   From formal English to slang

  • Telloh — /te loh /, n. a village in SE Iraq, between the lower Tigris and Euphrates: site of the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash. Also, Tello …   Useful english dictionary

  • Statues of Gudea — Twenty seven statues of Gudea have been found so far (A AA). A K were found during Ernest de Sarzec s excavations in the court of the palace of Adad nadin ahhe in Telloh/Girsu. M Q come from clandestine excavations in Telloh in 1924; most of the… …   Wikipedia

  • Gudea cylinders — Two cylinders telling the construction of the temple of Ninurta, Girsu, Circa 2125 BC, Terra cotta, Dimensions 56.50 cm long, 33 cm diameter, Louvre Museum, Paris, Department of Near East Antiquities, Richelieu, Hall 2, Accession number …   Wikipedia

  • Girsu — Coordinates: 31°37′N 46°9′E / 31.617°N 46.15°E / 31.617; 46.15 Girsu (cuneiform:?; Sumerian:Ĝirsu; Akkadian:?) …   Wikipedia

  • Ngirsu — (cuneiform:?; Sumerian:Ĝirsu; Akkadian: ? ) is modern Tell Telloh, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, and it was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some 25 km northwest of Lagash. Because of the initial nasal velar unicode|, the transcription of Ĝirsu is… …   Wikipedia

  • Lagash — /lay gash/, n. an ancient Sumerian city between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, at the modern village of Telloh in SE Iraq: a palace, statuary, and inscribed clay tablets unearthed here. * * * modern Telloh Ancient capital in Sumer. It was… …   Universalium

  • Lagash — ( is modern Tell al Hiba, Iraq. Located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, Lagash was one of the oldest cities of Sumer and later Babylonia. Nearby Ngirsu (modern Telloh ) was the religious center of… …   Wikipedia

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