Crossword-Solution: LAGASH
We have 3 clues for the answer “LAGASH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient Sumerian city that clashed with neighboring Umma (it's one letter off a type of bread) | 1 answer |
| Sumerian city | 3 answers |
| BABYLONIAN city-state | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Hint 2 anagram
ELSDI
Hint 3 another clue
Move
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Sentences with LAGASH (5)
Like Adab, Lagash, Shuruppak, and other early Sumerian cities, it was probably destroyed and deserted at a very early period, though it was reoccupied under its old name in Neo-Babylonian or Persian times.
This occurred in the reign of Gudea, patesi of Lagash, who lived some centuries before our Sumerian document was inscribed.
Beside the god was the divine eagle, the emblem of Lagash; his feet rested upon the whirlwind, and a lion crouched upon his right hand and upon his left.
Eannatum and Gudea of Lagash both place her immediately after Anu and Enlil, giving her precedence over Enki; and even in the Kassite Kudurru inscriptions of the thirteenth and twelfth centuries, where she is referred to, she takes rank after Enki and before the other gods.
The south-Babylonian kings _Urukagina,_ of _Shirpurla_ (Lagash), and _Enshagkushana,_ of a district which included _Nippur,_ are dated by most Assyriologists as early as 4000 B.C., or even earlier.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).