Position in chronology
Ur-Bau 06
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(i 1) For Ninĝirsu, Enlil's powerful warrior, Ur-Bau, ruler of Lagaš, the child born to Ninagala, built his E-ninnu-anzud-babbar, (and) built his E-dura. (ii 5) For Bau, the kind woman, the child of An, he built her temple in Iri-kug. (iii 1) For Ninkugnuna he built her temple in Urub. (iii 4) For Enki, his master, he built his temple. (iii 8) For Ninagala, his personal god, he built his temple.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
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Why it matters
Lists five temple-building projects by Ur-Bau of Lagaš — including E-ninnu for Ninĝirsu — fixing his reign as a major phase of sacred construction just before the Gutian period disrupted Sumerian urban life.
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 Q001467.
Attribution
Image: WAM 41.0106 (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P272832). 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/Q001467/.
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