Archaeological site Mesopotamia and the Levant
Nippur
Ancient city in modern day Iraq
- Within Ur III period (computed)
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 | Within Ur III period On the timeline | Between 2100 and 2000 BCE: the period’s own dates, read from the time period its record gives. Not a date recorded for the site itself. A date for the site as recorded — not a date of worship there. |
| Location | Recorded to the site 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 Nippur, 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”.
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42 km awayMarad
archaeological site in Iraq -
47 km awayShuruppak
archaeological site in Iraq -
72 km awayAdab
city in Sumer -
75 km awayKish
ancient Sumerian city -
78 km awayJemdet Nasr
archaeological site in Iraq -
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79 km awayGreat Mosque of Kufa
mosque in Iraq -
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81 km awayAl-Sahlah Mosque
mosque in Iraq -
82 km awayEzekiel's Tomb
mausoleum in Al Kifl, Iraq
Connections
How Nippur connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Recorded events and days 1
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.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
11 statements on this record
- 8 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 3 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
- 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.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: a date from its recorded time period. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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