-1 101 z Within the 6 ml (9 km) long walls lay some 4,000 ha of city. This vast area, probably in Uruk times the largest city in the whole world, seems to have contained not only temple and residential areas but probably also pastures, gardens and date plantations, and areas from which clay was dug to make bricks.
# Early Dynastic houses
1 101 x A major group of sacred buildings of the Ubaid period, dedicated to the worship of Anu, the sky god. He was originally the chief deity but was supplanted by Enlil. Anu was patron of Kullaba, a village which became part of Uruk at an early date.
# Anu Complex
2 101 x Set on a 50 ft (16 m) high platform, the White Temple takes its name from its gleaming white gypsum plaster walls. It has a typical tripartite (three section) plan and contained both an offering table and an altar.
# The White Temple
4 102 A Like many Sumerian cities, Uruk was fortified in the Early Dynastic period when conflicts erupted between the cities. In one of the early texts, Gilgamesh describes the walls he erected to guard the city, which during his reign withstood a siege by Agga, king of Kish.
