Position in chronology
Šulgi 16
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) For Ninḫursaĝa, his lady, Šulgi, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, built her beloved dam.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
Why it matters
Dedicates a dam to the goddess Ninḫursaĝa, attesting Šulgi's hydraulic patronage and the theological framing of Ur III infrastructure as divine service.
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 Q000968.
Attribution
Image: OIM A01140 (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA) — from Adab (mod. Bismaya) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P226505). 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/Q000968/.
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