Abu Salabikh

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Abū Ṣalābīḫ is the modern Arabic name of an archaeological locality in the province of Al- Qadisiyya of present-day Iraq, whose historical name could not be clarified until today.

In Abū Ṣalābīḫ, not far from Nippur, there are several small tells that caused by a urukzeitliche and one of these following Sumerian settlement. The town lost its importance as the Euphrates, on which this settlement was, his bed changed and thus the water supply of the town was cut off already in the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. As much of the city today is especially true because of the document archives found there.

First excavations at Abū Ṣalābīḫ took place in the 1960s by the University of Chicago Oriental Institute under the direction of Donald P. Hansen. Here, some 500 clay tablets were found. Further excavations by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (then British School of Archaeology in Iraq ) under the direction of Nicholas Postgate began in 1975 and took to the second Gulf War to an end. The clay tablets found in Abū Ṣalābīḫ were kept in the Iraqi Mationalmuseum and were lost in the looting.