Dilbat

32.1544.5Koordinaten: 32 ° 9 '0 "N, 44 ° 30' 0" E

Dilbat (now Tell ed - Duleym ) was a Sumerian town south-east of Babylon on the eastern bank of the Euphrates. In the city center was the ziggurat of Uras, an earth - goddess who was mentioned in the Gilgamesh epic.

The founding Dilbats falls into the second phase of the Frühdynastikums, about 2700 BC The settlement was then at least in the time of the empire of Akkad, large parts of the second millennium BC, in the time of the Sassanids, and in the early Islamic period inhabited. Dilbat was mainly as a production plant of agricultural products, particularly wheat, significant.

The site consists of two tells, the western the remains of the first millennium BC and contains later and a larger east from the remains of earlier epochs there. Excavations were initially undertaken under the direction Hormuzd Rassam, who discovered, among others, some Neo-Babylonian clay tablets with writing. In the late 1980s worked the University of Chicago Oriental Institute in Dilbat. Today Dilbat is mainly known for its clay tablets found at still held illegal illegal excavations and sold on the black market.

• Archaeological sites in Iraq
• Mesopotamia
• Sumer