Larsa
Larsa was a city-state in Sumer , about 25 km southeast of Uruk . The current name of Larsa is Tell as-Senkereh .
history
Larsa was a Sumerian foundation and was in the 2nd millennium BC. BC under Akkadian rule. Larsa was the Sumerian sanctuary of the sun god Utu . 1763 to around 1745 BC In BC Larsa came under Babylonian hegemony. Around 1740 BC Chr. Larsa falls permanently to the Old-Babylonian Empire . The residence of a West Semitic dynasty was discovered in the hill of Senkere .
Larsa in the Bible?
Often in older research there is the thesis that Larsa is mentioned in Genesis (14: 1) as Ellasar with his king Arjoch . However, this thesis is outdated.
See also
literature
- Daniel Arnaud: Texts from Larsa. The epigraphic finds of the 1st campaign in Senkereh-Larsa, 1933 (Berlin Contributions to the Middle East 3). Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-496-02510-7
- Erich Ebeling : Old Babylonian letters from the Louvre collection from Larsa (messages from the old oriental society 15.1 / 2). Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1942.
- Erich Ebeling: Old Babylonian letters from American collections from Larsa (messages from the Old Oriental Society 16.1 / 2). Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1943.
- Ilmari Kaerki: The Sumerian and Akkadian royal inscriptions of the ancient Babylonian period 1: Isin, Larsa, Uruk (Studia Orientalia 49). Helsinki 1980. ISBN 951-95075-6-6
- Marcel Sigrist: Larsa Year Names (Institute of Archeology publications, Assyriological series 3). Berrien Springs 1990. ISBN 0-943872-54-5
Web links
Commons : Larsa - collection of images, videos and audio files
Coordinates: 31 ° 17 ' N , 45 ° 51' E