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    Mari (Cuneiform: 𒈠𒌷𒆠, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; Arabic: تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell...
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  • Mari, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran Mari, Punjab, a village and a union council in Pakistan Mari, Syria, ancient Near Eastern city-state Mari...
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    Royal Palace of Mari was the royal residence of the rulers of the ancient kingdom of Mari in eastern Syria. Situated centrally amidst Syria, Babylon, Levant...
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    Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and is best known for his work at Mari, Syria, where he led important excavations from 1933 to...
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  • Nippur is 20,000, the value of which is even lower than those estimated for Mari (50,000); Uruk and Umma (40,000); Memphis, Ebla, Urkesh, and Shuruppak (30...
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    Yaggid-Lim (category Kings of Mari)
    Iagitlim was king of Mari, Syria during the 19th century BC. He was probably of Amorite origin. Little is known about his reign except that he came into...
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    the Akkadian language. Ebla was weakened by a long war with Mari, and the whole of Syria became part of the Mesopotamian Akkadian Empire after Sargon...
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    The Lion of Mari is a copper statue of a lion found in 1936 by André Parrot at the "Temple of Lions" in Mari, Syria. The statue is damaged, having been...
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    Terqa (category Mari, Syria)
    Governorate, Syria, approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) from the modern border with Iraq and 64 kilometres (40 mi) north of the ancient site of Mari, Syria. Its...
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  • languages of Australia Mari, Syria § People, language and government, for the languages spoken in the ancient Near Eastern city of Mari This disambiguation...
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  • Tuttul (category Mari, Syria)
    deities [1] Dossin, Georges, “Inscriptions de Fondation Provenant de Mari”, Syria, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 152–69, 1940 George, Andrew, and Manfred Krebernik...
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    Statue of Ebih-Il (category Archaeological discoveries in Mari, Syria)
    superintendent of the ancient city-state of Mari in modern eastern Syria. The statue was discovered at the Temple of Ishtar in Mari during excavations directed by...
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    — Mesannepada Mari bead The lapis lazuli bead from Mari, National Museum of Damascus, Syria ("King of Ur", 𒈗𒋀𒀊𒆠 side). Transcription of the Mari bead. Initially...
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    Aššur, dating to the thirteenth century BCE and a painted fresco from Mari, Syria shows a giant dove emerging from a palm tree in the temple of Ishtar...
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  • Ornina (redirect from Ur-Nanshe (Mari))
    singer of Ishtar's temple in the kingdom of Mari. A seated statue was discovered in the temple to Ishtar in Mari, representative of a musician. The name given...
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  • second millennium BC Mari archives archives in the vicinity of the north of Mari, Syria, and Arioch with Arriuk, who appears in the Mari archives as a subordinate...
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    Aššur, dating to the thirteenth century BC, and a painted fresco from Mari, Syria shows a giant dove emerging from a palm tree in the temple of Ishtar...
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  • [1]. M Birot, "Les chroniques 'Assyriennes' de Mari", MARI 4 (1985), 219–242. Rafal Kolinski, "The Mari Eponym Chronicle: Reconstruction of the Lay-Out...
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    1973 in the ruins of Mari, an Assyrian outpost at that time in Syria. Additional unpublished references to Kinahnum in the Mari letters refer to the same...
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  • Ishtarat (category Mari, Syria)
    city of Mari, Syria. Her temple was found in 1952. Ishtarat was most probably a variant of Ishtar, who was worshipped beside Ishtarat in Mari. Haldar...
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    The 21st-century BC statue of Iddi-Ilum of Mari, Syria, is made of soapstone....
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    (Greek) [1] Harbaville Triptych Triptych in ivory (Byzantine) Borghese Vase Krater (Greek) Daniel Pincot Investiture of Zimrilim Fresco (Mari, Syria)...
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    of upper Mesopotamia in this period is documented in the archives of Mari, Syria. It was known to have been on the Tigris river, though which bank is...
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    Shibtu (category Mari, Syria)
    the ancient city-state of Mari in modern-day Syria. Historian Abraham Malamat described her as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies." Shibtu was born...
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    Aššur, dating to the thirteenth century BC, and a painted fresco from Mari, Syria, shows a giant dove emerging from a palm tree in the temple of Ishtar...
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  • the information about Carchemish mostly comes from the archives of Mari, Syria. Son of Aplahanda, he succeeded his brother Yatar-Ami. Little is known...
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    A terracotta baking mould for pastry or bread, representing goats and a lion attacking a cow. Early 2nd millennium BC, Royal palace at Mari, Syria...
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    Saint-Mathurin [fr] in France (1973) André Parrot in Mari, Syria (1931–1974) Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer in Ugarit, Syria (1929–1970) Roman Ghirshman in Iraq and...
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    18th-century BC fresco of the Investiture of Zimrilim, Royal Palace of ancient Mari, Syria On the left, Anthony the Great, crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint...
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    Investiture of Zimri-Lim (category Archaeological discoveries in Mari, Syria)
    ancient city-state of Mari in eastern Syria. The fresco, which dates back to the 18th century BC, depicts Zimri-Lim, king of Mari, receiving the rod-and-ring...
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