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Tutub Khafaje, Temple of Moon god, Sin

Sumerian Civilization; Temple of the moon god Sin; constructed during Jemdet Nasr-Early Dynasty, 3000–2500 B.C.E., built from 2900 B.C.E.; located on the Dayala River, tributary of the Tigris River, nine miles east of present-day Bagdad, Iraq. More than 200 graves were found mostly under the city's houses surrounding the Oval Temple.

Elevation is c. 43 meters (142 feet) above sea level.

Materials: sun-dried earth (adobe) bricks covered with kiln-fired glased bricks
laid in natural occurring bitumen, wood beams and columns.

Data for this CG model:
1. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Khafajah-Temple-Oval-2-After-Delougaz-1940-pl-VII_fig7_309203469
2. Delougaz,Pinhas, 1940; THE TEMPLE OVAL AT KHAFAJAH, The University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications Volume LIII
3.Lawecka, Dorota 2012; Early Dynastic "Oval" Temples in Southern Mesopotamia, Światowit, Annual of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw Vol. IX(l) (2011) Fascicle A
2012
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ed0a/59a7f95b4006406b7db7c310cf1d627b7a7e.pdf

 

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