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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Ur-Namma 39

Records Ur-Namma's excavation of a dedicated offering canal at Ur, linking royal hydraulic engineering directly to the provisioning of temple cult under Enlil's authority.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Ur-Namma 40

Ur-Namma's canal dedication to the moon-god Nanna at Ur attests the Ur III state's hydraulic investment as an act of royal piety, linking irrigation infrastructure directly to divine patronage.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Ur-Namma 42

A royal inscription of Ur-Namma, founder of the Ur III dynasty and promulgator of the oldest known law code, dedicated to the moon-god Nanna — one of dozens of such dedications anchoring royal legitimacy in divine patronage.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Ur-Namma 47

Dedicatory vow on a vase from Nanna's temple at Ur links Ur-Namma's building piety to Gilgameš as divine protector — and preserves one of the earliest epigraphic curse formulae against inscription erasure.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Ur-Namma 49

A fragmentary Ur-Namma royal inscription that adds one more manuscript witness to the corpus defining how Ur III kings projected legal and divine authority in their own words.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Ur-Namma 54

Attests a daughter of Ur-Namma serving as en-priestess of the moon-god Nanna at Ur, documenting the dynastic strategy of placing royal women in Mesopotamia's highest cultic offices.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 223, Bod S 182

1(aš) gur barley, royal (measure) — barley of the loan, (for) flour, by the bronze gur (measure), from Ur-lisi, in the name of Lugal-gigire, son of Ur-Ištaran — sealed by Ur-en(na), the carpenter; it is at hand (booked). Month: "Dumuzi", year: "the son of the king ..." [broken] Ur-li, the carpenter, son of Lugal-[...].

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 224, Bod S 187

Seal of the governor (ensi2): 5 grain-fed oxen, 68 grain-fed sheep — (recipient/authority) Nin-tur-tur, beloved child of Šulgi, the king. (Seal inscription:) Nigar-ki-du10, the chief constable (gal5-la2-gal), son of Giri-[...], is your servant.

Ur-Namma 39

Ur-Namma 40

Ur-Namma 42

Ur-Namma 47

Ur-Namma 49

Ur-Namma 54

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 223, Bod S 182

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 224, Bod S 187

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 224, Bod S 189

ABAA (KAO 4), 79 P351

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AR RIM 05, 39 322

ArOr 87, 033-057 07

ArOr 87, 033-057 11

AUCT 3, 337

AuOr 31, 232 02

AuOr 31, 232 03

AuOr 31, 233 04

AuOr 31, 233 05

AuOr 31, 233 06

AuOr 32, 175-176

AuOr 33, 215-220

AuOr 33, 215-220

AuOr 33, 215-220

BAOM 2, 26 24

BAOM 2, 30 61

BM 014751

Chicago 20060119d

CM 26, 146

CUNES 49-02-029

CUNES 51-04-018

CUNES 51-10-056

CUNES 52-04-082

CUNES 52-04-084

CUSAS 03, 0062

CUSAS 03, 0074

CUSAS 03, 0089

CUSAS 03, 0090

CUSAS 03, 0171

CUSAS 03, 0178

CUSAS 03, 0212