White Temple (Uruk)

Iraq / al-Mutanna / as-Samawah / Uruk
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In Late Uruk times the city encompassed two distinct centers, Eanna, dedicated to the city goddess Inanna, and Kullaba, which, on the basis of much later evidence, was perhaps devoted to the sky god An. The temple platform in Kullaba, first constructed in the Úbaid Period, grew taller with every renovation so that by 3000 B.C. it had become a 43-foot (13-m)-high tower. The temple on top of this protoziggurat had a typical tripartite plan, consisting of a long central room, with altar and offering table, flanked on either of its long sides by a row of smaller rooms. This was the White Temple, so named because of its gypsum plaster coating.
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Coordinates:   31°19'23"N   45°38'7"E

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  • How to protect these and other ancient ruins from mad people like the guys who blasted the Palmyra ones and Bamian. Maybe 3D digitizing, scanning and printing to make replicas is the only way. The locations lies in a politically unstable region, so is inherently unsafe for antiquities.
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