Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta

35°29′41″N 43°16′12″E / 35.494685°N 43.270008°E / 35.494685; 43.270008 (Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (Tulul ul-Aqar)

Mesopotamia in 2nd millennium BC (Place names in French)
Fragment of a wall painting from the palace at Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta

Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (modern Tulul ul Aqar (Telul al-Aqr) in Salah al-Din Governorate, Iraq) was a new cult center for Ashur and perhaps a new capital city founded by the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I (about 1243–1207 BC) just north of Assur. Its name meant "Port Tukulti-Ninurta".


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