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Ubaid Uruk Period Early Dynastic Akkadian Empire Ur III · Neo-Sumerian Old Babylonian Old Assyrian Middle Babylonian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian Achaemenid Persian

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~2050 BCE

·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian

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(1) Ur-Nanibgal, governor of Nibru: Lugal-mea, the messenger, overseer of the soldiers, your servant.

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