Position in chronology
Ur-Bau 04
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For Ninĝirsu, the powerful warrior of Enlil, Ur-Bau, ruler of Lagaš, the child born to Ninagala, made an eternal thing appear: he built and restored his E-ninnu-anzud-babbar.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q000884/
Why it matters
Dedicatory inscription of Ur-Bau of Lagaš recording construction of the E-ninnu temple for Ninĝirsu — anchoring the pre-Gudean building history of Lagaš's chief cult site before the famous Gudea cylinders.
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 Q000884.
Attribution
Image: MRAH O.0511 (Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P222955). 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/Q000884/.
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