Warka

English

Etymology

From Arabic وركاء

Proper noun

Warka

1. Alternative name for the ancient city of Uruk, or the modern archaeological site.
   • 1936, M. E. L. Mallowan, Review of The Development of Sumerian Art, by Leonard Woolley, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 337:

     The discovery in Uruk of a brecciated limestone vase of the Jamdat Nasr period made of a material almost certainly imported from the Mosul area, and the occurrence at Gawrah and Warka of the curious double looped idols seems to me significant evidence of a close contact between Assyria and Sumer at this period.

   • 1983, Carsten Colpe, “Development of Religious Thought”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 3, number 2, Springer, page 844:

     For some unknown reason, Parthian art in Palmyra, Assur, Hatra, Dura-Europos, Warka, Tang-i Sarvak and Shāmi presents a different picture.

   • 2013, Guillermo Algaze, “The End of Prehistory and the Uruk Period”, in Harriet Crawford, editor, The Sumerian World, Routledge, page 74:

     […] there is general agreement that Nissen’s (2003) estimate of the population of Warka in the Late Uruk period at 40,000 or so people probably represents a reasonable approximation.

Derived terms

• Uruk-Warka