333:"Naram-Sin, the mighty, king of Agade, when the four quarters together revolted against him, through the love which the goddess Astar showed him, he was victorious in nine battles in one in 1 year, and the kings whom they (the rebels) had raised (against him), he captured. In view of the fact that he protected the foundations of his city from danger, (the citizens of his city requested from Astar in Eanna, Enlil in Nippur, Dagan in Tuttul, Ninhursag in Kes, Ea in Eridu, Sin in Ur, Samas in Sippar, (and) Nergal in Kutha, that (Naram-Sin) be (made) the god of their city, and they built within Agade a temple (dedicated) to him. ..."
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309:(BM 42261, BM 42494, BM 42264, BM 42275, BM 42379, and BM 42295), noting that some of those may actually have come from the unlocated Tell Egraineh which Rassam also excavated in 1881, some have appeared for sale over the years, almost all from the Achaemenid period with three being from the Old Akkadian period and one from the Old Babylonian period.
392:"He made glad his face, his dwelling, the shrine of A full month, the name he spoke, his crescent He builds up the city street(s) with fill, the beginning of the festival he The king came out of Borsippa and hea toward Cuthah He entered Eam, in/with the ground he constantly cov ...Cuthah 'your , O Nergal, '"
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in 1881, for four weeks. Little was discovered, mainly some Hebrew and
Aramaic inscribed bowls and a few tablets. He found a neglected "mausoleum of Abraham" on the small mound and had it cleaned by his workers. Recording a few more bricks of Nebuchadrezzar II, he indicated the possibility that they
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Century B.C. to the 21st Century A.D.: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neo-Sumerian Studies Held in Madrid, 22–24 July 2010, edited by Steven J. Garfinkle and Manuel Molina, University Park, USA: Penn State University
270:. The site consists of two settlement mounds. The larger main mound is 0.75 miles long and crescent-shaped. A smaller mound is located to the west, in the hollow of the crescent. The two mounds, as is typical in the region, are separated by the dry bed of an ancient canal, probably the
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Babylon in the 39th year of his reign with his year name reading "Year in which Hammu-rabi the king with the great power given to him by An and Enlil smote the totality of Cutha and the land of Subartu". The 40th year name of Hammurabi mentions the Emeslam temple at Kutha.
512:, and interpreting this to mean that their worship was not acceptable to the deity of the land, they asked Sargon to send an Israelite priest, exiled in Assyria, to teach them, which he did. The result was a mixture of religions and peoples, the latter being known as "
574:, Mu'jamIV: 488, s.v. Kutha). It goes without saying that the story is apocryphal, but it shows that among the Shiites there were people ready to identify themselves with the Nabateans. Thus it comes as no surprise that especially in the so-called
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Dandamayev, M. A., "Neo-Babylonian and
Achaemenid State Administration in Mesopotamia", Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period, edited by Oded Lipschits and Manfred Oeming, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 373-398,
421:"I established every day 8 sheep as regular offerings for Nergal (and) Las, the gods of the Emeslam and Cutha, I provided abundantly for the offerings of the great gods, I increased the regular offerings beyond the old offerings."
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Jacobsen, Thorkild and Moran, William L, "Mesopotamian Gods and
Pantheons". Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, pp. 16-38,
582:"Yaqut also notes, "the identification of Kutha as the original home Shiah Muslims believe to be the Abrahamic roots of Islam. Yet the identification of Kutha, and by extension also Abraham, with the Nabateans is remarkable."
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Shiites) a lot of material surfaces that is derivable from Mesopotamian sources (cf. Hämeen-Anttila 2001), and the early Shiite strongholds were to a great extent in the area inhabited by Nabateans.
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Jacobsen, "The Waters of Ur", Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, pp. 231-244, 1970
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Michalowski, "The Flooding of Ešnunna, the Fall of Mari: Hammurabi’s Deeds in Babylonian Literature and History", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 68, pp. 15–43, 2016
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Geller, M. J., "Babylonian
Astronomical Diaries and Corrections of Diodorus", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 1–7, 1990
403:(859–824 BC), Kutha is mentioned on line 82 ie "I marched to the great cities (and) made sacrifices in Babylon, Borsippa, (and) Cuthah,(and) presented offerings to the great gods."
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Hormuzd Rassam, Asshur and the Land of Nimrod: Being an
Account of the Discoveries Made in the Ancient Ruins of Nineveh, Asshur, Sepharvaim, Calah, ..., Curts & Jennings, 1897
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A. Kirk Grayson, "Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC) A.0.102". Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 5-179, 1991
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mentioning the city of Kutha (Ku-tu), though it is not known with certainty that it was in situ. He returned to visit the site a number of times. The site was also visited by
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Da Riva, Rocio, "Nebuchadnezzar II’s Prism (EŞ 7834): A New Edition", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 196-229, 2013
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Rawlinson, H. C., "On the Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia", The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 12, pp. 401–XXI, 1850
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Rients de Boer, "Beginnings of Old Babylonian Babylon: Sumu-Abum and Sumu-La-El", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 70, pp. 53–86, 2018
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Jursa, Michael, "Spätachämenidische Texte aus Kutha", Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 43-140, 2003
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