Larsa

Larsa
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	Shown within Iraq
Location	Ishan al-Bahriyat, Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq
Region	Mesopotamia
Coordinates	31°17′9″N 45°51′13″E / 31.28583°N 45.85361°E
Type	Settlement

Larsa (Sumerian logogram: 𒌓𒀕𒆠 UD.UNUG^KI,^[1] read Larsam^ki^[2]), also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon (Gk. Λαραγχων) by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult of the sun god Utu with his temple E-babbar. It lies some 25 km (16 mi) southeast of Uruk in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate, near the east bank of the Shatt-en-Nil canal at the site of the modern settlement Tell as-Senkereh or Sankarah.

Larsa is thought to be the source of a number of tablets involving Babylonian mathematics, including the Plimpton 322 tablet that contains patterns of Pythagorean triples.^[3]

^ ETCSL. The Lament for Nibru. Accessed 19 Dec 2010.
^ ETCSL. The Temple Hymns. Accessed 19 Dec 2010.
^ [1] Robson, Eleanor, "Words and Pictures: New Light on Plimpton 322", The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 105–20, 2002

[1] ETCSL. The Lament for Nibru. Accessed 19 Dec 2010.

[2] ETCSL. The Temple Hymns. Accessed 19 Dec 2010.

[3] [1] Robson, Eleanor, "Words and Pictures: New Light on Plimpton 322", The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 105–20, 2002

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Shown within Iraq
Location	Ishan al-Bahriyat, Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq
Region	Mesopotamia
Coordinates	31°17′9″N 45°51′13″E / 31.28583°N 45.85361°E / 31.28583; 45.85361
Type	Settlement