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  Shown within Iraq | |
| Alternative name | Tulūl al-Fāj / Tell Yassir |
|---|---|
| Location | Iraq |
| Coordinates | 32°33′41″N 45°6′0″E / 32.56139°N 45.10000°E |
| Type | settlement |
| History | |
| Periods | Bronze Age |
| Cultures | Old Babylonian |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 2018 |
| Archaeologists | Ahmed Ali Jawad |
| Condition | Ruined |
| Ownership | Public |
| Public access | Yes |
Malgium (also Malkum) (Ĝalgi’a or Ĝalgu’a in Sumerian, and Malgû(m) in Akkadian) is an ancient Mesopotamian city tentatively identified as Tell Yassir (one of a group of tells called collectively Tulūl al-Fāj) which thrived especially in the Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BC - 1600 BC.[1] Malgium formed a small city-state in an area where the edges of the territories controlled by Larsa, Babylon and Elam converged. Inscribed in cuneiform as ma-al-gi-imKI, its chief deities were Ea (whose temple was called Enamtila) and Damkina.[2][3] A temple of Ulmašītum is known to have been there.[4] There was also a temple to the goddess Bēlet-ilī called Ekitusgestu as well as a temple to the god Anum.[1]
- ^ a b Frayne, Douglas, "Malgium", Old Babylonian Period (2003–1595 BC). Volume 4, The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia: Early Periods, University of Toronto Press, pp. 668–670, 1990 ISBN 0-8020-5873-6
- ^ De Boer, Rients, "An early Old Babylonian archive from the kingdom of Malgium?", Journal Asiatique 301.1, pp. 19-25, 2013
- ^ Kutscher, R., "Malgium", RlA 7/3–4, pp. 300–304, 1988
- ^ Watanabe, Chikako E., "The symbolic role of animals in Babylon: a contextual approach to the lion, the bull and the mušḫuššu", Iraq, vol. 77, pp. 215–24, 2015