At the beginning of
3rd dynasty of Ur Sirara ( sux, ) was a temple complex in
Lagash
Lagash (cuneiform: LAGAŠKI; Sumerian: ''Lagaš''), was an ancient city state located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Ash Shatrah, Iraq. Lagash (modern Al-Hiba) ...
- it may also (or instead) have been a city as mentioned in The Royal Chronicle of Lagaš. It has been suggested that the city-state known as Sirara was also called ''Nina'' or ''Nimin'' which was probably a seaport.
[Zarins, Juris, "The Early Settlement of Southern Mesopotamia: a Review of Recent Historical, Geological, and Archaeological Research", ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 112.1 (1992), 66.]
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