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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 21add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 21)

(1) Guards of the city wall: Ur-igi, the captain. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 22add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 22)

(1) Guards of the city wall: Amar-ezen, the captain. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 23add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 23)

Names Iri-kagina (Uruinimgina) as king of Lagaš alongside a named wall-guard captain — corroborating the civic-military administration documented in his celebrated reform inscriptions.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 24add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 24)

(1) Guards of the city wall: Dundun, the captain. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 25add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 25)

Names Iri-kagina (Urukagina) as king of Lagaš alongside a named wall-guard captain, attesting the military-administrative personnel of the city during the reign famous for history's earliest recorded social reforms.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 26add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 26)

Names Iri-kagina (Urukagina) as king of Lagaš and records a wall-guard appointment — administrative evidence from the reign of the ruler whose reforms are the earliest known attempt to codify social justice.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 27add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 27)

Names the wall-guard captain Urdu under Iri-kagina (Urukagina) of Lagaš: a rare administrative snapshot of military garrison command in the city credited with history's earliest recorded social reforms.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 28add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 28)

Names a wall-guard captain under Iri-kagina (Urukagina) of Lagaš, adding a rare administrative title to the prosopography of the ruler whose reforms are the earliest social-justice legislation known.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 29add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 29)

Names a city-wall guard captain under Iri-kagina (Urukagina) of Lagaš — administrative detail anchoring the ruler's security apparatus during the reform period that preceded Lugalzagesi's conquest.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 30add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 30)

Names a city-wall guard captain under Iri-kagina (Urukagina) of Lagaš, adding a rare prosopographic data point to the reign of the ruler credited with history's earliest recorded social reforms.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 31add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 31)

Names the captain of Lagaš's city-wall guard in Iri-kagina's fifth regnal year, supplying a rare dated administrative snapshot of urban military organisation in the Early Dynastic III period.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 32add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 32)

(1) Guards of the city wall: Inana-ursaĝ, overseer of the palace staff. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 33add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 33)

Names Iri-kagina (Urukagina) as king of Lagaš and assigns city-wall guards a pastoral role — a concrete fragment of the administrative vocabulary behind his celebrated reform edicts.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 34add

(i 1') ... were the rulerś onion plots. (i 5') The team donkeys and the unblemished oxen .... (ii 1') Bau became the owner of all the households and fields of the female (members' of the ruler's family). ... all the households fields of the (ruler's) children. (iii 1') The ... of Niĝin are (entitled to) 180 loaves of bread and and 1 mud vessel of beer. (iii 5') The double men's toll through the gate (of the netherworld) is revoked.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Uruna-badbi 2001

A votive inscription in which a temple scribe dedicates an offering vessel to Ninlil on behalf of multiple named individuals, attesting the personal piety and social networks of literate cult personnel in the Ur III temple economy.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Utuk/Uhub 1

(1) For Zababa, Uhub, ruler of Kiš, ....

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 01

Royal titulary of Amar-Suena, third king of Ur III: attests the formula 'king of the four quarters' that legitimised Sumerian rulers as universal sovereigns under Enlil's divine mandate.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 02

(1) Amar-Suena, whose name was proclaimed by Enlil in Nibru, the steadfast supporter of Enlil's temple, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 03

(1) For Enlil, the king of all lands, his master, Amar-Suena, whose name was proclaimed by Enlil in Nibru, the steadfast supporter of Enlil's temple, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters, built the Kura-igi-ĝ̃al, the ziggurat temple, his beloved temple.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 04

(1) Amar-Suena, the powerful king.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 05

(i 1) For Enlil, the king of all lands, his master, Amar-Suena, whose name was proclaimed by Enlil in Nibru, the steadfast supporter of Enlil's temple, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters, installed this (door socket) at Enlil's pure foundation pit, at the place that fills Amar-Suena's heart with joy.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 06

(1) For Enlil, the king of all lands, his beloved master, Amar-Suena, nominated by Enlil in Nibru, the steadfast supporter of Enlil's temple, the powerful king, king of Urim, king of the four quarters, built the temple in which syrup, ghee, and wine never cease in (Enlil's) place of offering.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 07

(o 1') ... whose name was prošlaimed by ..., the steadfast supporter of Enlilś temple, the powerful ..., king of Urim, king of the four quarterṣ built the E-temen-ni-guru, his beloved temple, in Urim.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 08

(1) For Ningal, his lady, Amar-Suena, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters, built the Ĝipar-kug, her beloved temple. He dedicated it to her for his well-being.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 09

(1) Since the dawn of time no temple has been built for the Dubla-maḫ except for an offering-place, where a reed hut was erected, (but now) for Nanna, his beloved master, Amar-Suena, the beloved of Nanna, whose name was proclaimed by Enlil in Nibru, the steadfast supporter of Enlil's temple, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters, built a temple for the Dubla-maḫ, the building marvelled at by the Land, his place of rendering judgements, his net, the one from which no enemy of Amar-Suena may escape. He made it shining, decorated it with gold, silver, and lapis lazuli. In…

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 10

Dedicatory curse clause invokes Nanna and Ningal against anyone who displaces the statue, preserving the standard Ur III formula for protecting royal monuments through divine sanction rather than human enforcement.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 11

(1) Amar-Suena, whose name was proclaimed by Enlil in Nibru, the steadfast supporter of Enlil's temple, the powerful king, king of Urim, king of the four quarters, erected the statue (with the name) "It is him whose name was proclaimed by Suen who is the beloved of Urim". (1) Copy of a baked brick from the excavated debris of Urim, the work of Amar-Suena, king of Urim, that Sîn-balāssu-iqbi, military governor of Urim, found while looking for the ground-plan of the E-kiš-nu-ĝal. Nabû-šuma-iddin, son of Iddin-Papsukkal, the lamentation-priest of Sîn, read and copied it for viewing. (14) Whoever…

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 12

Records Amar-Suena's construction of a royal jail at Ur — one of the earliest explicit textual attestations of a dedicated carceral institution in Mesopotamian history.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 13

(1) For Inana, the lady of battle, his beloved spouse, Amar-Suena, whose name was proclaimed by Enlil in Nibru, the steadfast supporter of Enlil's temple, the powerful king, king of Urim, king of the four quarters, fashioned her bronze ... of the E-ĝipar. He dedicated it to her for his well-being.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 14

(1) For Inana, lady of the evening, her lady, Amar-Suena, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters, built her temple.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 15

Dedicatory inscription of Amar-Suena for Enki's Abzu temple at Eridu, attesting the third Ur III king's building programme and his claim to universal rule under Enlil's authority.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 16

Records Amar-Suena's foundation of the first ĝipar (high-priestess residence) at Karzida, attesting the Ur III crown's active role in extending Nanna's cult into previously unserved cult centres.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 18

Preserves a royal titulary of Amar-Suena — 'king of Urim, king of the four quarters' — attesting the ideological claim to universal sovereignty that defined Ur III kingship at its height.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 19

(1) En-maḫ-gal-ana, the en priestess of Nanna.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 20 / CDLI Seals 003975 (CDLI Seals 003975 (composite))

(1) Nin-ḫedu, the daughter of the king: Urgu, the animal-fattener is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2002 / CDLI Seals 005804 (CDLI Seals 005804 (composite))

(1) Gudea, ruler of Lagaš: ..., the land recorder, is you servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2003 / CDLI Seals 005887 (CDLI Seals 005887 (composite))

(1) Amar-Suena, the powerful king, king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Lugal-melem, governor of Nibru, scribe ..., child of ..., scribe of the ĝipar in Nibru, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2004 / CDLI Seals 005819 (CDLI Seals 005819 (composite))

(1) Lugal-melem, governor of Nibru: Lugal-magure, the scribe, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2005 / CDLI Seals 000105 (CDLI Seals 000105 (composite))

(1) Ṣilluš-Dagan, governor of Simurrum: Ibbi-Addad, the scribe, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2006 / CDLI Seals 005907 (CDLI Seals 005907 (composite))

(i 1) Amar-Suena, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Ur-Lisi, governor of Umma, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2007 / CDLI Seals 005881 (CDLI Seals 005881 (composite))

(i 1) Amar-Suena, the powerful king, king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Aya-kala, the governor of Umma, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2008

(o 1) To Nungal, lady of the prisons, the life-giving lady, his lady, Puzur-ilī, the chief administrator of the E-ugti, dedicated this (stone tablet) for the well-being of Amar-Suena, whose name was proclaimed by Enlil in Nibru, the steadfast supporter of Enlil's temple, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2009

A private votive dedication by a scribe's wife to the goddess Lamma, it attests the personal piety of literate households under Amar-Suena and the role of women as independent dedicants in Ur III religious life.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2010add / CDLI Seals 005901 (CDLI Seals 005901 (composite))

(i 1) Amar-Suena, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Abi-luma, the scribe, child of ..., is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2011add / CDLI Seals 005880 (CDLI Seals 005880 (composite))

(i 1) Amar-Suena, the powerful king, king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Ada-lal, the courier, child of Abu-ṭab, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2012add / CDLI Seals 004272 (CDLI Seals 004272 (composite))

(1) Amar-Suena, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Aguda, the military governor of Ahuti, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2013add / CDLI Seals 005913 (CDLI Seals 005913 (composite))

(i 1) Amar-Suena, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Aguza is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2014add / CDLI Seals 005089 (CDLI Seals 005089 (composite))

(1) Amar-Suena, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Ahum-ilum, the courier, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2015add / CDLI Seals 005904 (CDLI Seals 005904 (composite))

(i 1) Amar-Suena, the powerful ..., king of Urim, king of the four quarters: Anum-mutappil, the courier, is your servant.

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~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Amar-Suena 2016add / CDLI Seals 000044 (CDLI Seals 000044 (composite))

(i 1) Amar-Suena, the powerful king, king of Urim: Arad-Nanna, child of ..., is your servant.

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