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- Locality
- قضاء الرفاعي
- Region
- محافظة ذي قار
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Umma
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq
- Ancient site.map_dot_label
- Umma
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Dhi Qar Province, Iraq
- Ancient site.region
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1854, 1885, 1999–2002, 2017–2019
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- William Loftus, John Punnett Peters, Nawala Ahmed Al-Mutawalli, Drahoslav Hulínek
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- Plan of terrain AO5677 mp3h9127.jpg
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- Umma
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Early Dynastic period
- Sargonic period
- Ur III period
- Archaeology
- Tell Jokha
- Umm al-Aqarib (Gišša)
- Tell Shmet
- Looting
- List of rulers
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|260px|Location of the city of Umma in Sumer
Umma () in modern Dhi Qar Province in Iraq, was an ancient city in Sumer. There is some scholarly debate about the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site. Traditionally, Umma was identified with Tell Jokha. More recently it has been suggested that it was located at Umm al-Aqarib, less than to its northwest or was even the name of both cities. One or both were the leading city of the Early Dynastic kingdom of Gišša, with the most recent excavators putting forth that Umm al-Aqarib was prominent in EDIII but Jokha rose to preeminence later. The town of KI.AN was also nearby. KI.AN, which was destroyed by Rimush, a ruler of the Akkadian Empire. There are known to have been six gods of KI.AN including Gula KI.AN and Sara KI.AN.
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