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    code, the Code of Ur-Nammu, the oldest known surviving example in the world. He held the titles of "King of Ur, and King of Sumer and Akkad". According...
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    southern Mesopotamia, could be western variants of Sumer. Most historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 – c. 3300...
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    History of Sumer The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk...
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    killing the king himself. After this battle, Ur-Nammu seems to have earned the title 'king of Sumer and Akkad.' Ur's dominance over the Neo-Sumerian Empire...
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    Dynasty of Ur (26th-25th century BCE) The First Dynasty of Ur was a 26th-25th century BCE dynasty of rulers of the city of Ur in ancient Sumer. It is part...
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    King of Ur", used by kings Lugal-kinishe-dudu and Lugal-kisalsi (both c. 2400 BC). Before the creation of titles like King of Sumer, King of Sumer and Akkad...
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    Shulgi (redirect from Shulgi of ur)
    of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, begun by his father Ur-Nammu. On his inscriptions, he took the titles "King of Ur", "King of Sumer and Akkad" and "King of...
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    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...
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  • Cemetery at Ur. The Sumerian King List provides a tentative political history of ancient Sumer and mentions, among others, several rulers of Ur. Mesannepada...
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    who carried off the kingship of the land of Sumer to the mountain land, who fi[ll]ed the land of Sumer with wickedness, who took away the wife from the...
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    Sumerian King List remarks that, after the rule of Ur was abolished, "The very foundation of Sumer was torn out", after which kingship was taken to Isin...
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    city's tutelary goddess. The other city laments are: The Lament for Sumer and Ur The Lament for Nippur The Lament for Eridu The Lament for Uruk The Book...
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    was one of Sumer's largest cities, has been estimated to have had a population of 50,000 – 80,000 at its peak. Given the other cities in Sumer and its large...
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  • Ur-Zababa is listed on the Sumerian King List as the second king of the 4th Dynasty of Kish. This text also records that Ur-Zababa had appointed Sargon...
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    founded the city of Ur Kasdim (Ur of the Chaldees) on the west bank of the Euphrates (Jubilees 9:4; 11:1–7) – the same bank where Ur, identified by Leonard...
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    after his death until the Gutian conquest of Sumer. The Sumerian King List makes him the cup-bearer to King Ur-Zababa of Kish. His empire is thought to have...
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    a tower in the land of Shinar.' - (10:18) His wife was Ora, daughter of 'Ûr, (the son of Kesed) (Jubilees 11:1). According to the Masoretic text (Genesis...
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  • the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BC. By the final phase of the Uruk period around...
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    of Sumer after two hundred years of Akkadian and Gutian rule, and was at the origin of the foundation of the Third Dynasty of Ur by his son-in-law Ur-Nammu...
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    Standard of Ur, from tomb PG 779. Shell inlay from tomb PG 779 King at war, with soldiers, from the Standard of Ur. Asia portal Sumer History of Sumer Royal...
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    Lumma. Eannatum, grandson of Ur-Nanshe and son of Akurgal, was a king of Lagash who conquered all of Sumer, including Ur, Nippur, Akshak (controlled by...
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    uprising occurred, a large coalition of city-states led by Iphur-Kis of Kish (Sumer) and Amar-Girid of Uruk, joined by Enlil-nizu of Nippur, and including the...
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    ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer. Centered on the city of Akkad (/ˈækæd/) and its surrounding region, the...
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    Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-53338-4. Page 33. MAEDA, TOHRU (1981). "KING OF KISH" IN PRE-SARGONIC SUMER. Orient:...
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    Hammurabi (redirect from Sumer game)
    Babylonian god of justice. Unlike earlier Sumerian law codes, such as the Code of Ur-Nammu, which had focused on compensating the victim of the crime, the Law...
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    ancient Sumer. Ur-Nanshe has left behind many inscriptions and plates that depict him, his family, and court. Lagash The Perforated Relief of King Ur-Nanshe...
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    Umma (section Ur III period)
    𒄑𒆵𒆠 ummaKI; in modern Dhi Qar Province in Iraq, was an ancient city in Sumer. There is some scholarly debate about the Sumerian and Akkadian names for...
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    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...
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    BCE (Vassals of UR III) Iddi-ilum Ili-Ishar Tura-Dagan Puzur-Ishtar (Vassals of Ur III) Ur III dynasty "Kings of Ur, Sumer and Akkad" Ur-Nammu Shulgi Amar-Sin...
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    locations across Sumer. In the 21st century BC, King Utu-hengal of Uruk adopted Gilgamesh as his patron deity. The kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 –...
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