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Adab And Abihu
Adab may refer to: ; Places * Adab (city), a city of ancient Sumer * `Adab, a village in Yemen ; Literary and cultural use * Adab (gesture), a greeting gesture traditionally used by Muslims of South Asia * Adab (Islam), the category of Islamic law dealing with etiquette * Adab (literature), the classical Islamic literature of medieval Asia ; Media * ''Al Adab'', Arabic online literary magazine in Beirut, Lebanon ; Surname * Misbaholdiwan Adab, a Kurdish poet {{Disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adab (city)
Adab or Udab ( Sumerian: ''Adab''ki, spelled UD.NUNKI) was an ancient Sumerian city between Telloh and Nippur. It was located at the site of modern Bismaya or Bismya in the Wasit Province of Iraq. Archaeology The site consists of a number of mounds distributed over an area about long and wide, consisting of a number of low ridges, nowhere exceeding in height, lying somewhat nearer to the Tigris than the Euphrates, about a day's journey to the south-east of Nippur. Initial examinations of the site of Bismaya were by William Hayes Ward of the Wolfe Expedition in 1885 and by John Punnett Peters of the University of Pennsylvania in 1890, each spending a day there and finding one cuneiform table and a few fragments. Walter Andrae visited Bismaya in 1902, found a table fragment and produced a sketch map of the site. Excavations were conducted there for a total of six months, between Christmas of 1903 and June 1905, for the University of Chicago, primarily by Dr. Edgar James Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
