Position in chronology
Gungunum 1
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) For Dagan, the lord of the great gods, her personal god, En-ana-tuma, the beloved en priestess of Nanna in Urim, child of Išme-Dagan, king of Sumer and Akkad, built the E-eš-medaĝala, her holy storehouse, and dedicated it to him for the well-being of Gungunum, the powerful man, king of Urim and for her (own) well-being.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
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Why it matters
Attests an en priestess of Nanna — a royal cultic office held by a king's daughter — dedicating a storehouse to Dagan in her own name, linking Gungunum's Ur III dynasty to both lunar and grain-god patronage.
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 Q002014.
Attribution
Image: CBS 17224 (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) — from Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P270041). 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/Q002014/.
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