The Bassetki Statue is a monument from the Akkadian period (2350–2100 BCE) in Mesopotamia. It was discovered in the 1974 during road construction near...

Bassetki (Kurdish: باستکێ, romanized: Bassetkî) is a small village in Iraq, in Dohuk Governorate of autonomous Kurdistan Region. The village is associated...

ships, and moored (the ships) at the quay of Agade" The inscription on the Bassetki Statue records that the inhabitants of Akkad built a temple for Naram-Sin...

Mardaman (modern Bassetki) was a northern Mesopotamian city that existed between ca.2200 and 1200 BC. It was uncovered in 2018 after translation of 92...

inscriptions as well as one contemporary record from the Old Akkadian period. The Bassetki Statue, discovered in 1974, was the base of a life-sized copper statue...

Asia. Routledge. p. 721. Pfälzner, Peter (2018). "Keilschrifttafeln von Bassetki lüften Geheimnis um Königsstadt Mardaman". uni-tuebingen.de. University...

current political conditions. One of the longer surviving examples is the Bassetki Statue, the copper base of a Narim-Sin statue: "Naram-Sin, the mighty,...

(Shekhna, Shubat-Enlil) Tell Halaf Tell Arbid Harran Chagar Bazar Mardaman (Bassetki) Kahat (Tell Barri) Tell Fekheriye (Washukanni?) Hadatu (Arslan Tash) Carchemish...

sandstone. From the same reign, the bare legs and lower torso of the copper Bassetki Statue show an unprecedented level of realism, as does the imposing bronze...

Tigris river, Trans-Tigridian region in northern Iraq, a site now called Bassetki was excavated, which in all likelihood was the ancient town of Mardama...

state it was found in when first excavated), the Mask of Warka, and the Bassetki Statue. According to museum officials, the looters concentrated on the...

that year, along with forty other pieces, including the Warka Vase and Bassetki Statue. The effort to recover these artifacts was spearheaded by Marine...

the city, and Eanna was regarded as her temple first and foremost. The Bassetki inscription of Naram-Sin in particular supports the view that Inanna was...

similarity in names but has since been discounted. More recently, the site of Bassetki has become generally accepted based on tablet found there in 2017. Assuming...

The Statues of Gudea and the Alaca Höyük bronze standards 2250 BC – The Bassetki Statue and the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin 2270 BC – The Statue of Manishtushu...

Rim-Sin II there after suppressing his revolt. Kesh is mentioned on the Bassetki Statue of Naram-Sin. "Naram-Sin, the mighty, king of Agade, when the four...

(Allani) and Annunitum. Shuwala was the tutelary goddess of Mardaman (modern Bassetki), a city in northern Mesopotamia assumed to be culturally Hurrian based...

Cornwall. November 3 – Announcement of the discovery of a Bronze Age city in Bassetki, Iraq. November 24 – Announcement of the discovery of an Early Dynastic...