Lagash

[ ley-gash ]

noun

1. an ancient Sumerian city between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, at the modern village of Telloh in SE Iraq: a palace, statuary, and inscribed clay tablets unearthed here.

Example Sentences

“There could have been multiple evolving ways for Lagash to be a city of marsh islands as human occupation and environmental change reshaped the landscape,” Hammer says.

From Science News

He scrambled back to the road and walked onward a little faster, until the battlements of Lagash came in sight.

From Project Gutenberg

The tablets in question include texts belonging both to first and second Dynasties of Lagash (Tell).

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Some time after, Lagash succeeded in asserting her independence, and many of her subsequent rulers style themselves “kings.”

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But the importance of Lagash was soon to pass away, and Ur became the dominating power in Babylonia.

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Entemena, one of the more famous rulers of the first dynasty of Lagash, and takes the form of a magnificent silver vase.

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