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Telloh

American  
[te-loh] / tɛˈloʊ /
Or Tello

noun

  1. a village in SE Iraq, between the lower Tigris and Euphrates: site of the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash.


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The Telloh finds were forwarded to the Louvre, which in this way secured a collection from the south that formed a worthy complement to the Khorsabad antiquities.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

The discoveries at Telloh and Nippur have occasioned a recasting of our views, but new problems have arisen as rapidly as old ones have been solved.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

Numerous bronze images of a kneeling god at Telloh give him only a loin-cloth, and often the deity, like the monarch, has only a skirt.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

Telloh, excavations, 11; temple records and legal documents, 165.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

On the use of kal, “servant” in the Sumerian texts, see Reisner, Tempelurkunden aus Telloh, pp.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

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