Malgium

Malgium (also Malkum or Malgûm) (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 (or ma-al-gu-umKI), its chief deities were Ea (whose temple was called Enamtila) and Damkina. A temple of Ulmašītum is known to have been there. There was also a temple to the goddess Bēlet-ilī called Ekitusgestu as well as a temple to the god Anum. During the time of one ruler Malgium was written differently, ma3-al-kaKI. The unlacted town of Ibrat is thought to have been near Malgium. Tablets illegally excavated from Malgium have begun to appear on the antiquities market. One, in a private collection, had a new, second, year name for Imgur-Sîn "The year the ‘Tigris/Zubi-Canal-of-Imgur-Sîn’ was dug by King dImgur-Sîn". Note the divine determinative for the rulers name. A few complete and partial year names for rulers of Malgium have been determined including "year when king dŠu-Kakka killed aurochs and wild cows", "year when dNur-Eštar, the mighty male, set in place the foundation of Eduru-Mama", "year when dŠu-Kakka ere

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