Malgium

Malgium (also Malkum) (Ĝalgi’a or Ĝalgu’a in Sumerian, and Malgû(m) in Akkadian) is an ancient Mesopotamian city tentatively identified as Tell Yassir (one of a group of tells called collectively Tulūl al-Fāj) which thrived especially in the Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BC - 1600 BC. Malgium formed a small city-state in an area where the edges of the territories controlled by Larsa, Babylon and Elam converged. Inscribed in cuneiform as ma-al-gi-imKI, its chief deities were Ea (whose temple was called Enamtila) and Damkina. A temple of Ulmašītum is known to have been there. There was also a temple to the goddess Bēlet-ilī called Ekitusgestu as well as a temple to the god Anum.

Malgium
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Alternative nameTulūl al-Fāj / Tell Yassir
LocationIraq
Coordinates32°33′41″N 45°6′0″E
Typesettlement
History
PeriodsBronze Age
CulturesOld Babylonian
Site notes
Excavation dates2018
ArchaeologistsAbbas Al-Hussainy
ConditionRuined
OwnershipPublic
Public accessYes
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