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Archaeological site

Assur

Archaeological site in Iraq, former capital of Assyria

  • Dated from 2500 BCE
  • Also called Aššur, Āshūr, Aššûr
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Overview

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From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Site history & evidence

What is documented here

Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.

Evidence On record What it shows
Site date Dated from 2500 BCE On the timeline A date for the site as recorded — not a date of worship there.
Location Recorded On the atlas A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent.
Dated activity None recorded A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Assur, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity.

Nearby

Places nearby

The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.

What this means

Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.

Computed See them together on the atlas

History

Recorded events

What Assur’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.

What this means

Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.

  1. 2001 CE Archaeological excavation  ↗ Has references
  2. from 2003 CE List of World Heritage in Danger  ↗

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

8 statements on this record

  • 6 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

JordyMeow · CC BY-SA 3.0

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