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词条 Zabala (Sumer)
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  1. History

  2. Archaeology

  3. Notes

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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Zabala (also Zabalam, modern Tell Ibzeikh, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq) was a city of ancient Sumer in what is now the Dhi Qar governorate in Iraq. Zabala was at the crossing of the ancient Iturungal and

Ninagina canals. The city's deity was Inanna of Zabala.

History

The first mentions of Zabala are in seals from the Jemdet Nasr period including a list of early sites - Ur, Nippur, Larsa, Uruk, Kes, and Zabalam.[1] The earliest historical record, a bowl inscription, indicates that Zabala was under the control of Lugalzagesi of Lagash.

In the Sargonic Period, Shar-kali-sharri and Naram-Sin both

reported building a temple to the goddess Inanna in Zabala

[2] and Rimush of Akkad reports

Zabala as attempting to rebel against the control of the Akkadian Empire. After the

fall of Akkad, Zabala came into the sphere of the city-state of Isin as reported

by the year names of several rulers including Itar-pisa and Ur-Ninurta.

The town was later subject to

Abisare of Larsa, who's year name reported the building of the

"Favorite of Inanna of Zabalam" canal.[3]

During the Ur III period, Zabala was controlled by the Ur governor in Umma

which was the capital of Umma Province.

[4]Cuneiform texts state that Hammurabi built Zabala's temple Ezi-Kalam-ma to the goddess Innana.[5]

The temple of Inanna in Zabalam is the subject of hymn 26 in the temple hymns of Enheduanna.

Archaeology

Beginning in the early 1900s, a great deal of illegal excavation occurred in Zabala. One of the oldest known extant examples of writing was removed from Zabala during this period[6]. This

activity reached a new height in the 1990s, at which time the Iraqi State Organization of Antiquities and Heritage appears to have authorized an official excavation, the

first at the site. It is not

clear that the results were ever published. A further outbreak of archaeological looting

at Zabala broke out after the 2003 War in Iraq.

Notes

1. ^Green, M.W., A note on an archaic period geographical list from Warka, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, pp293-4, 1977
2. ^ Mari A. Gough, Historical Perception in the Sargonic Literary Tradition: The Implications of Copied Texts, Rosetta, University of Birmingham
3. ^  The Rulersof Larsa, M. Fitzgerald, Yale University Dissertation, 2002
4. ^  The ruling family of Ur III Umma. A Prosopographical Analysis of an Elite Family in Southern Iraq 4000 Years ago, J.L. Dahl, UCLA disertation, 2003
5. ^Tablet MS 1876/1 in the Schøyen Collection
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/news/stray-sumerian-tablet-unravelling-story-behind-cambridge-university-librarys-oldest-written |title=A Stray Sumerian Tablet: Unravelling the story behind Cambridge University Library’s oldest written object |author= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=March 14, 2018 |quote=}}

See also

{{Portal|Ancient Near East}}
  • Cities of the ancient Near East

References

  • Andrew George, House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia (Mesopotamian Civilizations, Vol 5), Eisenbrauns, 1993, {{ISBN|0-931464-80-3}}
  • B. Alster, Geštinanna as Singer and the Chorus of Uruk and Zabalam: UET 6/1 22, JCS, vol. 37, pp. 219-28, 1985

External links

  • CDLI background on Zabala
  • Year Names of Naram-Sin of Akkad
  • Year Names of Abisare of Larsa
  • Translation of Temple HYmns of Enheduanna
  • Post 2003 war looting at Zabala

5 : Sumerian cities|Archaeological sites in Iraq|Former populated places in Iraq|Dhi Qar Governorate|2nd-millennium BC disestablishments

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