Position in chronology
Unattributed Ur III 1001
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') For ... king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built her/his beloved palace.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001872/
Why it matters
A fragmentary Ur III royal inscription attesting the titulary 'king of Sumer and Akkad' and palace-building ideology — evidence for how Ur III rulers projected legitimacy through construction dedications.
Transliteration
Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q001872.
Attribution
Image: CBS 15611 (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) — from uncertain (mod. Diqdiqqah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P227095). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001872/.
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