Lagaš – razlika između verzija

'''Lagaš''' ili '''Sirpurla''' bio je najstariji gradova [[Sumer]]a i kasnije [[Babilonija|Babilonije]]. Danas ga predstavlja relativno niska, ali duga linija ruševina i brežuljaka pod imenom ''[[Tell al-Hiba]]'' u [[Irak]]u, sjeverozapadno od spajajanja [[Eufrat]]a s [[Tigris]]om i istočno od [[Uruk]]a. Nalazi se na suhom dnu nekadašnjeg kanala, nekih 5 km (3 milje) istočno od Shatt-el-Haja, odnosno nešto manje od 16 km (10 milja) sjeverno od suvremenog grada [[Shatra]] u oblasti kojom se upravlja iz [[Nasiriyah]]a.

 

 

 

 

 

This temple had been razed and a fortress built upon its ruins, in the Greek or [[Seleucid]] period, some of the bricks found bearing the inscription in [[Aramaic]] and [[Greek language|Greek]] of a certain [[Hadad-nadin-akhe]], king of a small Babylonian kingdom. It was beneath this fortress that numerous statues of [[Gudea]] were found, constituting the prize of the Babylonian collections at the [[Louvre]]. These had been decapitated and otherwise mutilated, and thrown into the foundations of the new fortress. From this stratum also came various fragments of bas reliefs of high artistic excellence. The excavations in the other larger mound resulted in the discovery of the remains of buildings containing objects of all sorts in bronze and stone, dating from the earliest Sumerian period onward, and enabling the art history of Babylonia to be traced to a date some hundreds of years before the time of Gudea.