Talk:Larsa

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Found numerous cites treating the antediluvian city as unknown and distinct from historical Larsam, none supporting their identity, so rewrote that part of article with cites. Certainly Larsa is Larsam / UD.UNUG ("House of 'Ud'" = Utu?), but if scholarship has moved on and found some evidence that the two are in fact identical, the article just needs to have some cites with that information.

(And of course, if they are distinct, what little we know of Larag should probably get its own article someday instead of a redirect here.) -LlywelynII (talk) 13:33, 19 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Just saw Utu's Sumerian name is Ud, so the logographic name should mean exactly that ("House of Utu" / "Home of the Sun"), if someone can find a source better than my lousy Sumerian to justify inclusion. -LlywelynII (talk) 13:37, 19 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

When Rob117 wrote in the comment line on Nov 21, 2005 that we had "worked out" our dispute, part of the terms of the agreement were that the disputed text appear here on the discussion page, rather than in the actual article. So here is the controversial statement, open for discussion:

"At the time of Hammurabi's successful struggle with the Elamite conquerors, it was ruled by an Elamite king Eriaku, widely held by biblical scholars to be the Arioch of the Bible. He is usually considered to be either the king called Rim-Sin by his Semitic subjects, or his brother Warad-Sin."

(Note: Most of the prior debate on this is found at Talk:Elam... --ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 16:03, 4 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Who is de Loftus as spoken of in: "Loftus conducted excavations at this site in 1854." I cannot find any Loftus associated with archeology. Mhaesen 16:52, 1 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Added citation tag to sentence. Sumerophile (talk) 00:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

I took out the following line from the opening paragraph:

"the site of the worship of the sun-god, Shamash, represented by the ancient ruin mound of Senkereh (Senkera)."

It was in the middle of a run-on sentence which did not make much sense. Also, the relevance of the mention of the mound was unclear. I have copied it here so that its original author may add it back in a more appropriate section, hopefully with more detail.