Position in chronology
Lu-Utu 2
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For Ereškigal, lady of the place where the sun sets, Lu-Utu, governor of Umma, child of Ninisina, built a temple at the place where Utu rises, the place where the fates are determined for his (own) well-being. He laid out a canal at its edge. He made its name resplendent.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q000873/
Why it matters
Records Lu-Utu of Umma dedicating a temple to Ereškigal at the sunrise horizon — one of the few Akkadian-period inscriptions linking the chthonic queen of the underworld to a solar cult site.
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 Q000873.
Attribution
Image: PTS 1501 (Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA) — from Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P201507). 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/Q000873/.
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