page_title: Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta
section_title: Archaeology
hierarchical_section_title: Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta / Archaeology
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail (showing the cuneiform inscription) of the gypsum stele of Adad-bel ukin, governor of the cities of Libbi-ali (Assur), Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (modern Tulul ul Aqar), Ekallatum, Itu, and Ruhaqu. From the Rows of Stelae (Stelenreihen) at Assur, Iraq. 780 BCE. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany.
context_page_description: Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta was a new cult center for Ashur and perhaps a new capital city founded by the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I just north of Assur. Its name meant "Port Tukulti-Ninurta".
context_section_description: Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta was first excavated from 1913 to 1914 by a German team from the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (German Oriental Company) led by Walter Bachmann which was working at the same time at Assur. The finds are now in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, in the British Museum and in Istanbul. Bachmann did not publish his results and his field notes were lost. A full excavation report appeared only in 1985
  Work at the site was resumed in 1986 with a survey by a team from the German Research Foundation led by R. Dittman. A season of excavation was conducted in 1989.
   The survey showed that the site, which was thought to cover only 62 hectares, actually extended out to at least 240 hectares.
caption: Stele of Adad-bel ukin, governor of Libbi-ali, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, Ekallatum, Itu, and Ruqahu. From Assur, Iraq. 780 BCE. Pergamon Museum
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