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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Example Sentences

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

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

The Telloh tablets appear to be largely lists of offerings made to the temples at Lagash, and temple accounts.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

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 Jastrow, Morris

Various places are mentioned: Sippara, Abu Habba, Senkereh, Telloh, Warka, have all been stated to be the place of discovery.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

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