Preliminary Report on the XIVth and XVth Campaigns at Larsa
Résumé
In 2019, fieldwork resumed at Larsa for two seasons of one month each. Several complementary surveys were undertaken kassite period aken that change our understanding of the site, revealing in particular part of the network of channels supplying the city. The excavations focused on the sector north of the E-Babbar, the temple of the Sun-God Shamash, patron deity of Larsa, whose reoccupation in the Hellenistic period seems more important than expected.
Two buildings are being explored, B48 and B50. B48 is a large Hellenistic house (650 sq. m.) part of a well-planned neighborhood. In trench B50, below a very fragmentary Hellenistic temple, lay a major temple of the Old-Babylonian city, that remains to be identified. It is provided with massive mudbrick walls (5.6m wide at most) preserved in height up to the first storey of the building in some rooms (4.5m high). We give here a first brief account of our results, still in processing.
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