• Khafajah or Khafaje (Arabic: خفاجة), ancient Tutub, is an archaeological site in Diyala Governorate, Iraq 7 miles (11 km) east of Baghdad. Khafajah lies...
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    Abu Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Abu al-Fath (1058–1138/9), called Ibn Khafajah (إبن خفاجة), a native of Alzira, was a poet of al-Andalus during the reign of...
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    Early Dynastic I period. Jemdet Nasr Abu Salabikh Tell Fara Tell Uqair Khafajah Nippur Ur Uruk In the early 1900s, clay tablets with an archaic form of...
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    conducted extensive horizontal and vertical excavations on four mounds: Khafajah, Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna), Tell Agrab, and Ishchali. They uncovered...
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    sites in Central and Lower Mesopotamia—notably Girsu but also Eshnunna, Khafajah, Ur, and many others—have been excavated since the 19th century. These...
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    7000 BC. The first dated lime kiln dates back to 2500 BC and was found in Khafajah, Mesopotamia. About the same time, dehydrated gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) was being...
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    a city, Dur-Rimuš (Fortress of Rimush), located near Tell Ishchali and Khafajah. It was known to be a cult center of the storm god Adad. According to the...
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    Earliest known examples are from the Diyala River valley sites such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar. These third millennium BC palaces functioned as large-scale...
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    from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur (Sanctuary of...
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  • Khafaja or Khafajah (Arabic: خفاجة, also known as Al-Khafaji and Khafaji) is one of the major Arab tribes (especially in Iraq and Egypt) as well Saudi...
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  • االخفاجي) is an Arabic surname that denotes a relationship to or from Khafajah, Diyala Governorate. Notable people with the surname include: Raschad Al-Khafaji...
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  • BC), notably from Mari and to a lesser extent Alalakh, Tell Harmal and Khafajah. Occasionally, such names are also found in early Egyptian texts; and one...
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  • Bradford, New Hampshire. Sumerian King List (1939) The Temple Oval at Khafajah - chapter by Thorkild Jacobsen (1940) The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient...
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    Numerical tablet, 3500–3350 BC (Uruk V phase), Khafajah...
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    Scarlet Ware Pottery excavated in Khafajah. 2800-2600 BCE, Early Dynastic II-III, Sumer. British Museum....
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    "status unknown". Headless statue of a Sumerian male worshipper, from Khafajah, Iraq, on display at the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq since 1961. The Lost...
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  • University with a thesis, directed by Wolfhart Heinrichs, on the poetry of Ibn Khafājah, revised and published in 1992. She died of cancer aged 44. A book of essays...
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    Asmar) Me-Turan (Tell Haddad and Tell al-Sib) Tell Yelkhi (Awal?) Tutub (Khafajah) Der (Tell Aqar) Sippar (Tell Abu Habbah) Sippar-Amnanum (Tell ed-Der)...
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    aurochs’ heads' at the origin of the grapheme. Another vessel fragment from Khafajah, inscribed with the name Me-barag-[si] is usually also attributed to the...
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  • contemporaneous fragments of alabaster vessels with Enmebaragesi's name (found at Khafajah) lend credence to the belief that the king was a historical figure, supporting...
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  • Louvre Plaque of Ishtar from Eshnunna Sumerian Statues from Eshnunna and Khafajah Statuette of male worshiper from Tell Asmar - Early Dynastic period 2600-2350...
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    is closely interrelated with that of the nearby towns of Eshnunna and Khafajah. The best-known period in the history of Yorghan Tepe is by far one of...
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    temple of Ninhursag at the summit was on a cleared oval similar to that at Khafajah. The wall surrounding the temple was built by Shulgi of the Ur III Empire...
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  • the Diyala River and 3 miles south by southeast from the ancient city of Khafajah. It is thought to be ancient Nerebtum or Kiti and was part of the city-state...
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    period III Sumerian portrait statuette of a woman Sumerian statue from Khafajah, female worshiper Egyptian women with braided hair and ornamental headdress...
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    Female statuette, with cup and bracelet, Khafajah, 2650-2550 BCE...
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    Numerical tablet – Khafajah, Uruk V (3500–3350 BCE)...
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    Uruk V, 236 Uruk III), Umma, Eshnunna (2 Uruk III), Larsa (23 Uruk III), Khafajah, Kish (5 Uruk III), and Tell Uqair (39 Uruk III). They tend to be less...
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    places Akkade between the cities of Sippar (Sippar and Sippar-Amnanum) and Khafajah (Tutub) on a route to Eshnunna, Akkad would be on the Tigris just downstream...
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  • Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-1-68393-379-3. Badran, Arwa; Abu-Khafajah, Shatha; Elliott, Sarah (2022-11-07). Community Heritage in the Arab Region:...
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