Editing Kish (Sumer) (section)

===Tell Ingharra===
Located in the eastern side of the ancient Kish, Tell Ingharra was extensively explored during the Chicago excavation and provided the best known archaeological sequence in the 3rd millennium BC site. The site consists of several subtells (A, B, D, E, F, G, H, and Tell Bandar which is made up of Tells C and V).<ref name="Zaina2016">{{Cite journal|last=Zaina |first=Federico |date=April 2016 |title=Tell Ingharra-East Kish in the 3rd Millennium BC: Urban Development Architecture and Functional Analysis |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301764168 |journal=Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East |volume=1 |pages=431}}</ref><ref name="Zaina2020">[https://www.orientlab.net/uploads/pdf/OLSM_5_KISH_2020.pdf]{{Cite book |last=Zaina |first=Federico ca 20 /21 Jh |url=https://ixtheo.de/Record/1738340961 |title=The urban archaeology of early Kish: 3rd millennium BCE levels at Tell Ingharra |date=2020 |publisher=Ante Quem |isbn=978-88-7849-149-6 |series=OrientLab Series Maior}}</ref> In particular, the 1923 excavation concentrated heavily on mound E with its twin ziggurats, while the roughly 130 meter square Neo-Babylonian temple, built on an Early Dynastic plano-copnvex platform, was one of the two buildings that was properly described in a published report.<ref name=":4" />

The twin ziggurats were built of small plano-convex bricks in a herringbone fashion on the summit of Tell Ingharra. The larger one is located on the south-west side of the temple and the smaller one on the south-east side.<ref name=":4" /> The excavation report mainly focused on the larger ziggurat while there had been only one report on the smaller one by Mackay. Based on the findings from the larger ziggurat, it is suggested that the structures were built at the end of the Early Dynastic IIIa period to commemorate the city.<ref name="Zaina2016" /> The fascination of the ziggurats was interesting to the excavators as it was the only Early Dynastic structure that was not destroyed or obscured by later reconstructions, which was why it provided valuable evidence of that time period.<ref name=":4" />

As for the temple complex, the findings of the temple had determined that the mound was part of the city of Hursagkalama. It was used as an active religious centre until after 482 BC. They also had identified the builder as [[Nabonidus]] or [[Nebuchadnezzar II]] based on the bricks with inscriptions and barrel cylinder fragments reported in the temple.<ref name=":4" />

An Early Dynastic I/IIIa cemetery extended to the south towards Mound A with a number of high status graves containing multiple burials and carts drawn by equids or bovids and are considered as predecessors to the royal burials at Ur.<ref>[https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/Publications/SAC/sac1.pdf] Guillermo Algaze, "Life and Death in Early Dynastic Kish: The Evidence from Ingharra, Trench Y", in Karen L. Wilson and Deborah Bekken, "Where Kingship Descended from Heaven: Studies on Ancient Kish", ''Studies in Ancient Cultures'' 1, Chicago: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, pp. 1–7, 2023 {{ISBN|978-1-61491-092-3}}</ref>