laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city's tutelary goddess. The other city laments are: The Lament for Sumer and Ur The Lament for...

The lament for Sumer and Urim or the lament for Sumer and Ur is a poem and one of five known Mesopotamian "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the...

dating to Sin-Eribam and Silli-Adad, rulers of Larsa. They included a new copy of the Lament for Sumer and Ur. When the Royal Tombs at Ur were discovered,...

Hammurabi, Samsu-iluna, Abi-Eshuh City Laments such as Lament for Ur and Lament for Sumer and Ur King lists and other historical compositions such as Building...

have been laments. The Lament for Sumer and Ur dates back at least 4000 years to ancient Sumer, the world's first urban civilization. Laments are present...

for her in Girsu. She appears in a number of literary compositions, including the hymn inscribed on the Gudea cylinders and Lament for Sumer and Ur....

Third Dynasty of Ur or Ur III was a Sumerian dynasty based in the city of Ur in the 22nd and 21st centuries BC (middle chronology). For a short period they...

around 2000 BCE. The Lament for Sumer and Ur concerns the events of 2004 BCE, during the last year of King Ibbi-Sin's reign, when Ur fell to an army from...

BC. Kazallu is mentioned in the Sumerian literary composition Lament for Sumer and Ur: "Kazallu, the city of teeming multitudes, was cast into confusion...

composition Lament for Sumer and Ur, and in at least one theophoric name. Known sources mentioning her come from between the Ur III and Neo-Babylonian...

have been killed."" — Lament for Ur (extract). The Lament for Sumer and Ur then describes the fate of Ibbi-Sin: An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag̃a have decided...

paving the way for the Elamites under Kindattu to strike into Ur and capture the king. The Lament for Sumer and Ur describe the fall of Ur and the fate of...

in city laments; emesal is also found in the Lament for Ur. The Lament for Sumer and Ur The Lament for Ur The Lament for Eridu The Lament for Uruk "Lamentation...

standard emegir dialect of Sumerian. The Lament for Sumer and Ur The Lament for Ur The Lament for Eridu The Lament for Nippur Mattila, Raija; Ito, Sanae; Fink...

with the "civilizing of Enkidu". The Lament for Sumer and Ur, which was inspired by the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur, describes the impact of a cataclysm...

of Ur," "Lament for Sumer and Ur," and the "Nippur Lament"), the Sumerian laments were recited on the occasion of the rebuilding of a temple and, therefore...

Coffin Texts and Teaching for King Merykara 2000 BC: Sumerian Lament for Ur, Lament for Sumer and Ur, Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, and Debate between...

The Enamtila is also referred to as a palace of Ibbi-Sin at Ur in the Lament for Sumer and Ur, "Its king sat immobilised in his own palace. Ibbi-Suen was...

Ninazu and his wife Ningirida. Ritual texts, as well as literary compositions such as the Temple Hymns, Lament for Sumer and Ur and the myth Enlil and Ninlil...

Sumer that appears in some versions of the Sumerian King List (SKL) said to have been the third among the five cities to hold the kingship over Sumer...

Temple Hymn Mesopotamian City Laments Lament for Ur Lament for Sumer and Ur Lament for Nippur Lament for Eridu Lament for Uruk Eridu Genesis Ancient Egyptian...

beloved of An and Enlil, established the everlasting waters of plentifulness for Nippur, Eridu, Ur, Larsa, Uruk and Isin, restored Sumer and Akkad which...

State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2121-6. Eridu Genesis Inanna Lament for Sumer and Ur Sumerian literature Sjöberg 1994, p. 171. Kramer 1988, p. 11. Kramer...

She was portrayed mourning over it in laments, such as Lament for Ur or Lament for Sumer and Ur. Based on some of Ningal's epithets it has additionally...

doi:10.1515/zava.1985.75.1.1. ISSN 0084-5299. Lament for Sumer and Ur in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Lament for Ur in the ETCSL...

this myth and the celebration of Ninurta's victory in compositions such as Lugal-e or Marduk's in Enūma Eliš. In the Lament for Sumer and Ur, Gibil is...

Urukagina, and established the first reliably documented kingdom to encompass all of Sumer. The destruction of Lagash was described in a lament (possibly...

modern Samawah. Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BC. By the...

of Martu and in Lament for Sumer and Ur, as well as in an Old Babylonian god list. The construction of statues representing her, Numushda and Lugal-Apiak...

Enheduanna is dedicated to Ninĝirsu and his temple E-ninnu (lines 240–262). Ninĝirsu appears in the Lament for Sumer and Ur, a composition whose central theme...