Position in chronology
Ur-Namma 11
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) For Nanna, the fierce calf of An, the firstborn child of Enlil, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, built his E-temen-ni-guru.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
Why it matters
Dedicatory inscription for Ur-Namma's great ziggurat at Ur, the E-temen-ni-guru: direct royal testimony linking the monument's construction to the moon-god Nanna, anchoring the city's theological identity c. 2050 BCE.
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 Q000939.
Attribution
Image: M 44 (Bible Lands Museum, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P102603). 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/Q000939/.
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