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In 1877, he began a dig at Tello (the ancient Girsu , as it transpired, rather than Lagash as once supposed). The site, in present-day Iraq 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 of Gudea . He continued to work on the site until 1901.