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    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...
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  • Bassetki (Kurdish: باستکێ, romanized: Bassetkî) is a small village in Iraq, in Dohuk Governorate of autonomous Kurdistan Region. The village is associated...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    (Shekhna, Shubat-Enlil) Tell Halaf Tell Arbid Harran Chagar Bazar Mardaman (Bassetki) Kahat (Tell Barri) Tell Fekheriye (Washukanni?) Hadatu (Arslan Tash) Carchemish...
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    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,...
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  • Asia. Routledge. p. 721. Pfälzner, Peter (2018). "Keilschrifttafeln von Bassetki lüften Geheimnis um Königsstadt Mardaman". uni-tuebingen.de. University...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    that year, along with forty other pieces, including the Warka Vase and Bassetki Statue. The effort to recover these artifacts was spearheaded by Marine...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • (Allani) and Annunitum. Shuwala was the tutelary goddess of Mardaman (modern Bassetki), a city in northern Mesopotamia assumed to be culturally Hurrian based...
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  • 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...
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