All tablets.

Ur-Namma 19

(i 1) For Nanna, the first-born son of Enlil, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, drained a swamp planted with date palms seedlings, a genuine swamp, with an area of 3600 bur, and created a levee for it in the length of 4 dana 260 nindan. He donated (the drained swamp) to Urim for ever. (ii 7) The name of this levee is “Who is like Nanna?”.

Ur-Namma 2001 / CDLI Seals 005871 (CDLI Seals 005871 (physical))

(1) Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim: Ḫašḫamer, the governor of Iškun-Suen, is your servant.

Ur-Namma 21, ex. 1

(i 1) When An and Enlil looked with their gracious face at Nanna and gave him the kingship of Urim, then Ur-Namma, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, the beloved house-born slave of Nanna, the follower of Enlil's orders, confirmed the borders (separating) the gods by the just decision of Utu. He assigned subsistance fields to their people and marked their borders firmly.

Ur-Namma 23

(1) For Ninsumun, his personal god, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built the E-mah, his beloved temple.

Ur-Namma 24

Royal titulary linking Ur-Namma to the Ekur at Nippur, attesting his bid to legitimise Ur III kingship through patronage of Enlil's cult — the theological cornerstone of Sumerian royal authority.

Ur-Namma 25

(1) For Enlil, king of all lands, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built the E-kur, his beloved temple.

Ur-Namma 26

Ur-Namma's dedication of a temple to Enlil and excavation of the Id-en-eren-nun canal attests the intertwining of hydraulic infrastructure and divine patronage at the height of Ur III state-building.

Ur-Namma 27

(1) For Inana, lady of the E-ana, his lady, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, dug the Iturungal canal, her beloved canal.

Ur-Namma 28

(i 1) When Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built the temple of Enlil, then for Nanna, the firstborn child of Enlil, his master, he dug the canal whose name is "Nanna is the canal inspector", a boundary canal, extending it into the sea. By the just decision of Utu, he examined (the canal’s course) and approved it. (ii 1) If anyone contest Nanna over (the canal), may he be king or a ruler, he should be treated as if he were cursed by Nanna! May he lose status in the dwelling of Nanna! May his city expel him from under the reed canopy! May his life be miserable!

Ur-Namma 31

(1) For Enki, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built his temple.

Ur-Namma 32

(1) For Enki, the heavenly stormwind, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built his temple.

Ur-Namma 33

Attests Ur-Namma's construction of a temple for Inana, linking royal piety to political legitimacy at the height of the Ur III empire's centralised religious building programme.

Ur-Namma 34

(1) For Inana, lady of the E-ana, his lady, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built and restored her temple.

Ur-Namma 35

Dedicatory inscription in which Ur-Namma claims construction of a temple for the sun-god Utu, attesting the king's programme of sacred building as a pillar of Ur III royal legitimacy.

Ur-Namma 36

Attests Ur-Namma's construction of Ninhursaĝa's temple at Keš, linking the founder of the Ur III dynasty to one of Sumer's oldest cult centres through royal building patronage.

Ur-Namma 37

(1) For Ninlil, his lady, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built her beloved storehouse.

Ur-Namma 38

(1) For Enlil, king of all lands, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built the wall of Nibru.

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.

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.

Ur-Namma 41

(1) For Nanna, his master, Ur-Namma, ....

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.

Ur-Namma 43

(1) To Ningal, his lady, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, dedicated this (plaque) for his well-being.

Ur-Namma 44

(1) For Šara, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, ....

Ur-Namma 45

(1) To Nanna, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, dedicated this (mace) for his well-being.

Ur-Namma 46

(1) To Nin-gublaga, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, lord of Unug, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, dedicated this (mace) for his well-being.

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.

Ur-Namma 48

(1') ..., Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, ....

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.

Ur-Namma 50

(1) Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim.

Ur-Namma 51

(1) Watartum, the spouse of Ur-Namma, king of Urim: Lugal-kugzu, the captain, is your servant.

Ur-Namma 52

(1') ..., her lady, Tarām-Urim, daughter of Apil-kīn, king of Mari, daughter-in-law of Ur-Namma, king of Urim, ....

Ur-Namma 53 / CDLI Seals 006345 (CDLI Seals 006345 (physical))

(1) Puzur-Suen, the cultivator of Tarām-Urim.

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.

Ur-Namma 55add (formerly Unattributed Ur III 1019-1021)

(1') To ..., when he conquered Susa and turned it into his booty, Ur-Namma, king of Urim, dedicated (this vase) for his well-being.

Ur-Namma 56add (formerly Unattributed Ur III 1022)

(1') ... by the ... of Nanna ..., when he šonquered Susa and turned it into his booty, ....

USC 6500

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6500. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6501

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6501. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6502

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6502. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6504

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6504. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6505

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6505. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6506

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6506. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6507

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6507. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6509

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6509. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6510

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6510. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6511

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6511. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6512

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6512. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6514

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6514. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6516

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6516. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6517

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6517. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

USC 6518

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6518. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).