Archaeological site Mesopotamia and the Levant
Shuruppak
Archaeological site in Iraq
- Within Ur III period (computed)
- Also called Tell Fara, Shuruppag
A place,
and the traditions
recorded there.
Sites, not believers
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 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 Shuruppak, 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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47 km awayNippur
ancient city in modern day Iraq -
47 km awayAdab
city in Sumer -
52 km awayUruk
ancient city of Sumer and Babylonia -
52 km awayEanna
Ancient Sumerian temple in Uruk -
64 km awayBad-tibira
human settlement -
68 km awayE-ninnu
sumerian temple for Ningirsu in Girsu -
69 km awayGirsu
ancient Sumerian city -
77 km awayMarad
archaeological site in Iraq
History
Recorded events
What Shuruppak’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.
- 1931 CE Archaeological excavation ↗
- 1973 CE Archaeological field survey ↗
Also recorded, with no date on the statement
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
7 statements on this record
- 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 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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