page_title: Sidekan
section_title: Holy land of Muṣaṣir
hierarchical_section_title: Sidekan / History / Holy land of Muṣaṣir
context_page_description: Sidekan also called Bradost, a vast sub-district belongs to Soran District north of Erbil in Kurdistan Region, with 250 villages, and population of less than 15000. the exact number of Bradostian people estimated more than this census but as the original inhabitants had been deported three times in 1961, 1978 and 1988 and a lot of them has not returned yet due to the frequently bombing by Turkish and Iranian army on the Kurdistan Workers Party strongholds located in Khakurk mountains, and also because of the lack of renovation projects by the local authorities.
context_section_description: Sidkan old town was located near the village of Mucéser which was called Muṣaṣir  which was an ancient Mannaean city, attested in Assyrian sources of the 9th and 8th centuries BC. It was acquired by the Urartian king Ishpuini ca. 800 BC . The city's tutelary deity was Ḫaldi. The name Musasir in Akkadian means exit of the serpent. The Musasir temple was an important Araratian temple in Musasir, The Temple at Musasir appears in an Assyrian bas-relief which adorned the palace of King Sargon II at Khorsapat, to commemorate his victory over "the seven kings of Ararat" in 714 BC. During the early 1850s, the British Assyrian Excavation Fund entered the field under William Kennett Loftus and many antiquities and accurate drawings of wall sculptures were apportioned between the British Museum and the Louvre. However, a convoy of antiquities was attacked by Arab robbers while being shipped down the Tigris River, and today lies buried somewhere in the bed of that river.
caption: the life in Musasir
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