Larsa (the Biblical Ellasar, Genesis 14:1), was an important city of ancient Babylonia, the site of the worship of the sun-god, Shamash, represented by the ancient ruin mound of Senkereh (Senkera). It lay 15 miles southeast of the ruin mounds of Erech, near the east bank of the Shatt-en-Nil canal. Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin) is the first book of the Torah (five books of Moses) and hence the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also the first book of the Christian Old Testament. ... Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu, an ancient city in Mesopotamia (Location: 32°32′11″ N 44°25′15″ E, modern Al Hillah, Iraq). ... Shamash in his trone from the tablette of Sippar ca. ... For uses in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkiens, see Uruk-hai, Erech (Middle-earth). ...

Larsa is mentioned in Babylonian inscriptions as early as the time of Ur-Gur, 2700 or 2800 BC, who built or restored the ziggurat (stage-tower) of E-Babbar, the temple of Shamash. Politically it came into special prominence at the time of the Elamite conquest, when it was made the centre of Elamite dominion in Babylonia, perhaps as a special check upon the neighbouring Erech, which had played a prominent part in the resistance to the Elamites. At the time of Hammurabi successful struggle with the Elamite conquerors it was ruled by an Elamite king named Eriaku, the Arioch of the Bible, called Rim-Sin by his Semitic subjects. It finally lost its independence under Samsu-Iluna, son of Hammurabi, and from that time until the close of the Babylonian period it was a subject city of Babylon. A zig·gu·rat (zĭg`ə-răt) is a temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley and Persia, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding storeys. ... Elamite is an extinct language, which was spoken in the ancient Elamite Empire. ... For uses in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkiens, see Uruk-hai, Erech (Middle-earth). ... This diorite head is believed to represent king HammurabiHammurabi (also transliterated Hammu-rapi or Khammurabi) was the sixth king of Babylon. ... Arioch is a minor biblical personage and a fictional demon, named as a character in John Miltons Paradise Lost and later used by Michael Moorcock in his Elric stories. ... Samsu-Iluna (Samsuiluna), was the King of Babylon, who reigned from 1749 BC to 1712 BC. He was son of Hammurabi. ...

Loftus conducted excavations at this site in 1854. He describes the ruins as consisting of a low, circular platform, about 4.5 miles in circumference, rising gradually from the level of the plain to a central mound 70 ft. high. This represents the ancient ziggurat of the temple of Shamash, which was in part explored by Loftus. From the inscriptions found there it appears that, besides the kings already mentioned, Hammurabi, Burna-buriash (buryas) and the Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon restored or rebuilt the temple of Shamash. The excavations at Senkereh were peculiarly successful in the discovery of inscribed remains, consisting of clay tablets, chiefly contracts, but including also an important mathematical tablet and a number of tablets of a description almost peculiar to Senkereh, exhibiting in basrelief scenes of everyday life. Loftus found also the remains of an ancient Babylonian cemetery. From the ruins it would appear that Senkereh ceased to be inhabited at or soon after the Persian conquest. Nebuchadnezzar (or Nebudchadrezzar) II (ca. ...

Kings of Larda

Naplanum......................................2025-2004

Emisum........................................2004-1976

Samium........................................1976-1941

Zabaia........................................1941-1932

Gungunum......................................1932-1905

Abisare.......................................1905-1894

Sumuel........................................1894-1865

Nur-Adad......................................1865-1849

Sin-Iddinam...................................1849-1842

Sin-Eribam....................................1842-1840

Sin-Iqisham...................................1840-1835

Silli-Adad....................................1835-1834

Warad-Sin.....................................1834-1822

Rim-Sin I..................................... 1822-1863

conquered by Babylon 1763-1750

Rim-Sin II.........................................c. 1750

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