Meanings
- Synonym of Uruk, the ancient city or the modern archaeological site.
For some unknown reason, Parthian art in Palmyra, Assur, Hatra, Dura-Europos, Warka, Tang-i Sarvak and Shāmi presents a different picture.
1983, Carsten Colpe, “Development of Religious Thought”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 3, number 2, Springer, page 8442 more examples
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.
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[…] 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.
2013, Guillermo Algaze, “The End of Prehistory and the Uruk Period”, in Harriet Crawford, editor, The Sumerian World, Routledge, page 74Synonyms: Uruk
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proper nounSynonym of Uruk, the ancient city or the modern archaeological site.
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Warka. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Warka
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