Larsa

Also known as Tell as-Senkereh

250px|right|thumb|Mesopotamia in the time of [[Hammurabi]] Larsa (, read Larsamki), also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon (Gk. Λαραγχων) by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult of the sun god Utu with his temple E-babbar. It lies some southeast of Uruk in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate, near the east bank of the Shatt-en-Nil canal at the site of the modern settlement Tell as-Senkereh or Sankarah.

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Place details

Region: محافظة ذي قار
Country: العراق
Population: 0

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Key facts

Ancient site.name: Larsa
Ancient site.map_type: Iraq
Ancient site.relief: yes
Ancient site.location: Tell as-Senkereh, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq
Ancient site.region: Mesopotamia
Ancient site.type: Settlement

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Commons category: Larsa
P8168: Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
start time: 4000-00-00
end time: 0100-00-00

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Contents

History
Early Bronze Age
Early Dynastic IIIB
Akkadian period
Ur III period
Middle Bronze Age
Iron Age
List of rulers
Archaeology
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Larsa is thought to be the source of a number of tablets involving Babylonian mathematics, including the Plimpton 322 tablet that contains patterns of Pythagorean triples.