Girsu (Sumerian Ĝirsu; cuneiform ĝir2-suki 𒄈𒋢𒆠) was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some 25 km (16 mi) northwest of Lagash, at the site of what is...

largest cities (p. 218), Girsu shares the top with Mari with 50,000 inhabitants, though Table 2 (b) suggests that the population of Girsu as well as Umma and...

depicted in the company of waterfowl or scorpions. In sources from Lagash and Girsu, Bau's husband was the god Ningirsu. Among their children were deities such...

temple was the E-ninnu at Girsu, dedicated to the god Ningirsu. The Lagash state incorporated the ancient cities of Lagash, Girsu, Nina. Though some Uruk...

introduced to the pantheon of the state of Lagash, where her cult center was Girsu. Many kings of this area regarded her as their personal deity. In the Ur...

Bad-tibira, Larsa, Sippar, Shuruppak, Uruk, Kish, Ur, Nippur, Lagash, Girsu, Umma, Hamazi, Adab, Mari, Isin, Kutha, Der and Akshak. The cities to the...

century BC, middle chronology) was King of the city-states of Lagash and Girsu in Mesopotamia, and the last ruler of the 1st Dynasty of Lagash. He assumed...

(temple) to the warrior god Ningirsu in the Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Mesopotamia. Girsu was the religious centre of a state that was named Lagash...

known as Ninĝirsu (Sumerian: 𒀭𒎏𒄈𒋢: DNIN.ĜIR2.SU, meaning "Lord [of] Girsu"), is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting...

Dudu's rule over a reduced Akkadian Empire. Given activity at Umma and Girsu, and at Apiak whose location is unknown but which lay near the Tigris river...

Ur-Nanshe, temples attributed to Ur-Nanshe include Ningirsu's temple in Girsu, Nanshe's temple in Nina, and Apsubanda. He is known to have originally...

British Museum experts have suggested the possibility that a Greek temple at Girsu in Iraq, was founded by Alexander. According to the researchers, recent...

to adults (30 or 40 pints) and children (20 pints) written in cuneiform on clay tablet in year 4 of King Urukagina (circa 2350 BCE), from Girsu, Iraq...

civilization of Sumer, and includes the ruins of Ur, Eridu, Lagash, Larsa, Girsu, Umma, and Bad-tibira. The southern area of the governorate is covered by...

logogram representing Nergal. Temples dedicated to him existed in Isin and Girsu. He was also worshiped outside Mesopotamia by Hurrians and Hittites. He...

Villefosse [fr] in Algeria and Tunisia (1874) Ernest de Sarzec in Tello / ancient Girsu, Mesopotamia (1877–1900) Paul Girard in Greece (1881) Edmond Pottier, Salomon...

Lagash, showing Anzû as a lion-headed eagle in a Master of Animals motif, ca. 2550–2500 BC; found at Tell Telloh the ancient city of Girsu, (Louvre)...

regions. Archaeological sites in Central and Lower Mesopotamia—notably Girsu but also Eshnunna, Khafajah, Ur, and many others—have been excavated since...

Relief of libation to a vegetation goddess (ca. 2500 BC) found in ancient Girsu, at the Louvre....

Museum (AO 29616) Ubaid 4 pottery from Girsu, currently in the Louvre Museum (AO 15334) Ubaid 4 pottery from Girsu, currently in the Louvre Museum (AO 15337...

2124 BCE), a minor god named Ig-alima is described as "the great galla of Girsu". Lamashtu was a demonic goddess with the "head of a lion, the teeth of...

and Ingharra) Ur (Tell al-Muqayyar) Nippur (Afak) Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) Girsu (Tello or Telloh) Umma (Tell Jokha) Hamazi 1 Adab (Tell Bismaya) Mari (Tell...

diorite, reign of Gudea (Boston Museum of Fine Arts). Lion macehead of Gudea, Girsu. Gudea dedication tablet to God Ningirsu: "For Ningirsu, Enlil's mighty...

animal bones and ritual processions dedicated to Ningirsu at the site of Girsu. One of the remains was a duck-shaped bronze figurine with eyes made from...

in several fragments, possibly three in total. Two (found in Tell K at Girsu) are in the Louvre Museum, AO 2678 (34 cm high, 28 cm wide) for the relief...

the temple E-ešdam-ku indicates that she then found refuge in the city of Ĝirsu. In this exile, she composed the song Nin me šara, the performance of which...

sin against Ningirsu. ... Offence there was none in Urukagina, king of Girsu, but as for Lugal-Zage-Si, governor of Umma, may his goddess Nisaba make...

(Tell al-Madineh?) Zabalam (Tell Ibzeikh) Umma (Umm al-Aqarib, Tell Jokha) Girsu (Tello or Telloh) Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) Tell Zurghul (Nigin) Uruk (Warka)...

2500 – c. 2350 BC sometime during the ED IIIb period. Lugalsilâsi I Assaulted Girsu on ten separate occasions. Urzage Lugal-kinishe-dudu King of Uruk and Ur...

Ernest de Sarzec began excavating the Sumerian site of Tello (ancient Girsu, capital of the state of Lagash) in 1877, and published the first part of...