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Ernest de Sarzec5-mina weight with the name of Shu-Shin, king ofSumer andAkkad
Ernest Choquin de Sarzec (1832–1901) was a French archaeologist, to whom is attributed the discovery of the civilization of ancientSumer. He was in the French diplomatic service; on being transferred toBasra in 1872 as a vice-consul, he became interested in the excavations atUr, started by the British diplomat J. E. Taylor.[1]
In 1877, he began a dig atTelloh (the ancient Girsu, as it transpired, rather thanLagash as once supposed). The site, in present-dayIraq in the southern delta lowlands, had been drawn to his attention by local dealers in antiquities. During the 1880s he succeeded in finding evidence of the reign ofGudea. He continued to work on the site until 1901.[2]
