Marad
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place
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Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott
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History
Marad (modern Tell Wannat es-Sadum), a city located ca. 60 km southeast of Babylon, was the cult center of the god Lugal-Marda; it is approximately halfway between Babylon and Isin, on the Arahtu canal. Details about the cultic topography of this settlement, which was established in the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 2700 BC), are known from a number of cuneiform sources, including Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions, the so-called "Canonical Temple List," and two first-millennium-BC ziggurat lists. Marad's principal temple, Eigikalama, is attested from the Old Akkadian Period to Neo-Babylonian Period.
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- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Marad (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Marad (750 BC - 30 BC)
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- Eigikalamma located at Marad (2335 BC - 540 BC)
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 A1 Marad
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 93 A1 Marad. The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Wanna wa Sadun IRQ
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, DARMC, R. Talbert, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Marad: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <http://3.22.44.247/places/912901> [accessed: 04 July 2025]
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