Malgium - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Malgium - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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. 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.Kutscher, R., "Malgium", RlA 7/3–4, pp. 300–304, 1988 A temple of Ulmašītum is known to have been there.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 There was also a temple to the goddess Bēlet-ilī called Ekitusgestu as well as a temple to the god Anum. Read more on Wikipedia
Source: en.wikipedia.org