Position in chronology
Ur-nigina 1
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Ur-gigira, military governor of Dumuzid, child of Ur-niĝin, the powerful man, king of Unug, and Ama-lagar, his mother, built for Ninšešeĝara, his lady, the E-šešeĝara, her beloved temple, in Patibira.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001449/
Why it matters
Attests a Ur III military governor's temple-building at Patibira for the goddess Ninšešeĝara — localising otherwise poorly documented Sumerian religious patronage below the royal tier.
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 Q001449.
Attribution
Image: UM 31-43-247 (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) — from Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P216757). 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/Q001449/.
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