Ancient Babylonia - Kish
Kish, ancient city of Mesopotamia, in the Euphrates valley, 8 mi (12.9 km) E
of Babylon and 12 mi (19 km) east of the modern city of Hillah, Iraq. It was
occupied from very ancient times, and its remains go back as far as the
protoliterate period in Mesopotamia. In the early 3d millennium B.C., Kish was a Semitic
city. Although it was one of the provincial outposts of Sumerian civilization,
it had a cultural style of its own. There is an excavated palace of Sargon I of
Agade, a native of Kish, and a great temple built by Nebuchadnezzar and
Nabonidus in the later Babylonian period. The site also yielded a complete sequence
of pottery from the Sumerian period to that of Nebuchadnezzar.
Ancient Babylonia
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