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Islamic remains and a larger irregularly shaped east mound, roughly 500 meters in circumference, with remains from the 1st to 3rd millennium BC. In the 1850s a French team led by Jules Oppert visited the area and examined the nearby site of Tell Muhattat reporting that it consisted of the remains of a single large structure from the Parthian or Sassanian periods. Dilbat was excavated briefly in 1879 by
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Almamor. Work began on the eastern mound near the earlier Sounding C and a Kassite period temple to the city god was uncovered. The temple had inner and outer walls and multiple gates. In
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The site of Tell al-Deylam covers an area of about 15 hectares rising to a height of about 6.5 meters. The site is marked with robber pits, mainly at the northern end of the eastern mound. There is a Muslim shrine on the western edge of the site. It consists of two mounds, a small triangular western
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Hurrites. Centre de Recherches Archéologiques, Publications de l’URA 8, pp. 51-70,
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and Early
Islamic periods. It is also known to have been involved in the various struggles of the middle 1st century BC involving the Neo-Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian, and Achaemenid interests. It was an early agricultural center cultivating
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Hussain Ali, "Some Engineering Properties of Ancient Fire Clay Bricks Discovered at the Dilbat Archaeological Site, South of Hilla City", The Iraqi Geological Journal, pp. 121-130,
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Almamori and Alexa Bartelmus, "New Light on Dilbat: Kassite Building Activities on the Uraš Temple “E-Ibbi-Anum” at Tell al-Deylam", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 111, iss. 2,
397:. The ninth year name of Old Babylonian ruler Sabium reports the rebuilding of the Urash temple "Year (Sabium) restored the house / temple of Ibbi-Anum" (mu e2 i-bi2-a-nu-um mu-un-gibil). The Neo-Babylonian ruler
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Babylonian pottery from area B at Tell ed-Deylam (Dilbat)", in C. Breniquet/C. Kepinski (Hg.), Études mésopotamiennes. Recueil de textes offert à Jean-Louis Huot, Paris, pp. 1-20,
316:"For Uraš, foremost lord, counselor(?) of heaven and earth, his lord, Kurigalzu, the one called by the god An, who listens to Enlil, built the “E-Ibbi-Anum” (var. “E-ibi-Ana”), his beloved temple, in Dilbat."
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Koshurnikov S., "Chef de cités, gouverneurs et bourgmestres: Acte légal, administration royale et communauté dans la ville babylonienne ancienne de Dilbat", Vestnik drevnej istorii, vol. 194, pp. 76-93,
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Kobayashi, Yoshitaka, "A Comparative Study of Old Babylonian Theophorous Names from Dilbat, Harmal and ed-Der", Acta Sumerologica Hiroshima 2, pp. 67-80, 1980
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2023 a magnetic gradiometry survey was conducted in the northwestern section of Tell al-Deylam. Ten inscribed bricks, found in situ, were of one of the two
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beginning with a surface survey. Three sounding (A, B, and C) were opened. Soundings A and B revealed Old Babylonian period houses dug with later
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period houses and burials. Two fragmentary cuneiform tablets were found and, in an Isin-Larsa context, an inscribed brick of Ur III ruler
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