Malgium
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
History & heritageWasit Governorate, Iraq

Malgium

ِArchaeological site in Iraq.

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Malgium (also Malkum or Malgûm) (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 (or ma-al-gu-umKI), its chief deities were Ea (whose temple was called Enamtila) and Damkina.

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Location

Open map: Malgium and 5 nearby attractions

32.56139, 45.10000 · Wasit Governorate

Nearby

  1. Abu SalabikhHistory & heritage
    33 km
  2. Jemdet NasrHistory & heritage
    35 km
  3. KishHistory & heritage
    46 km
  4. NippurHistory & heritage
    50 km
Photo credits (4)
  • Abu Salabikh: Near_East_topographic_map-blank.svg : Sémhur derivative work: Zunkir ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons
  • Jemdet Nasr: Jastrow · Public domain · Commons
  • Kish: MapMaster · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
  • Nippur: Jasmine N. Walthall, U.S. Army · Public domain · Commons