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~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

RIME 2.01.05.02, ex. 04

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — RIME 2.01.05.02, ex. 04. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2270 BCE·Akkadian Empire

Editorial

RTC 083

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — RTC 083. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

RTC 084

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — RTC 084. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

ZA 108, 001-005

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — ZA 108, 001-005. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

Anonymous 424437

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC) ?) — Anonymous 424437. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

RIME 2.01.02.11, ex. 43

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — RIME 2.01.02.11, ex. 43. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

RIME 2.01.02.13, ex. 01

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — RIME 2.01.02.13, ex. 01. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

RIME 2.01.04.44, ex. 01

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — RIME 2.01.04.44, ex. 01. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

RIME 2.01.05.03, ex. 05

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — RIME 2.01.05.03, ex. 05. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2270 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

Lippmann Coll 330

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — Lippmann Coll 330. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 003

Gudea's dedication of Bau's temple at Iri-kug documents the pre-Ur III ruler of Lagaš as a temple-builder for An's daughter, anchoring his legitimacy in divine patronage rather than military conquest.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 004

Records Gudea of Lagaš's construction of a temple to Bau at Iri-kug, anchoring the goddess's cult site to a specific Lagašite ruler and expanding the known catalogue of his building projects beyond the celebrated E-ninnu.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 008

Gudea's dedication of a temple to Dumuzid-abzu at Ĝirsu attests the ruler's active patronage of a goddess otherwise sparsely documented in royal building inscriptions of the Lagaš II period.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 011

Attests Gudea's construction of a temple to Ĝatumdug at Iri-kug, anchoring the goddess's cult site and Lagaš's sacred geography during the Neo-Sumerian revival.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 016

Gudea's dedication of the E-mehušgal-anki temple to Igalim, son of the city-god Ninĝirsu, documents the religious building program through which Lagaš's rulers asserted divine favour and civic identity in the late third millennium.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 018

Attests Gudea's construction of an Inana temple at Ĝirsu, adding one entry to the catalogue of Lagašite royal building programs that defined Neo-Sumerian piety and statecraft before the Ur III unification.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 019

Attests Gudea of Lagaš's construction of a temple to Inana at Ĝirsu, adding one data point to the corpus of his building activity in the late 3rd millennium.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 024

Records Gudea of Lagaš's construction of a temple to Mešlamta-ea in Ĝirsu, adding one data point to the corpus of pre-Ur III royal building inscriptions that map Sumerian cultic geography.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 025

Gudea's dedication of the E-sirara temple to Nanše at Niĝin attests the governor of Lagaš's active patronage of a goddess whose portfolio explicitly included boundary-setting and social justice, linking civic piety to legal order in the Ur III period.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 026

Records Gudea of Lagaš's restoration of Nanše's temple E-sirara at Niĝin, adding a dateable monument to the corpus of pre-Ur-III Lagašite royal piety toward the boundary-goddess.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 030

Dedicatory inscription from Gudea of Lagaš recording temple construction for Ninazu at Ĝirsu: evidence that this neo-Sumerian ruler maintained a personal divine patron distinct from the city-god Ningirsu.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 031

Attests Gudea's building of a temple for Nindara at Ĝirsu, adding one entry to the catalogue of his construction projects that defined Lagaš's late third-millennium religious landscape.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 037

Gudea's dedication of the E-ninnu temple to the warrior-god Ninĝirsu at Lagaš, attesting the Sumerian practice of framing royal construction as an act of cosmic completion rather than mere civic building.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 040

Dedicatory inscription in which Gudea of Lagaš records building the E-ninnu temple for Ninĝirsu — part of a corpus that defines Lagašite royal piety and Sumerian building-inscription conventions in the late third millennium.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 041

Dedicatory inscription in which Gudea of Lagaš credits Ninĝirsu with commissioning the E-ninnu temple: one of dozens of such texts that collectively map the ideological compact between Lagašite rulers and their city-god.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 042

Dedicatory inscription in which Gudea of Lagaš records building the E-ninnu temple for the warrior-god Ninĝirsu — a primary source for the late third-millennium Lagašite temple-building program and royal piety ideology.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 043

Gudea's dedication of the E-ninnu temple to the warrior-god Ninĝirsu at Lagaš, attesting the ideological programme through which a post-Akkadian ruler legitimised his authority via monumental sacred construction.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 048

Gudea's dedication of the E-ĝidru, temple of seven niches, to Ninĝirsu attests the ruler of Lagaš's systematic programme of temple-building as the primary medium of royal legitimacy in the late third millennium.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 049

Records Gudea of Lagaš's construction of the Bagara temple for the war-god Ninĝirsu, adding one data point to the sequence of building inscriptions that document the neo-Sumerian revival of monumental piety ca. 2130 BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 051

Dedicatory inscription recording Gudea's restoration of the Kasura gate at Ninĝirsu's E-ninnu temple in Lagaš — one of many such texts that together document the scale of his building programme ca. 2130 BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 062

Dedicatory inscription recording Gudea's construction of a temple for his personal deity Ninĝišzida at Ĝirsu — one of dozens of such texts that together map the patron-god relationships structuring Lagašite royal piety around 2130 BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 063

Dedicatory inscription in which Gudea records building a temple for his personal god Ninĝišzida at Ĝirsu, attesting the Lagašite ruler's direct patron-deity relationship and the city's late third-millennium sacred building programme.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 064

Attests Gudea's construction of a temple to Ninĝišzida in Ĝirsu, documenting the Lagašite ruler's personal divine patronage and his city's sacred building program ca. 2130 BCE.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 066

Votive dedication by Gudea of Lagaš to his personal god Ninĝišzida — one of dozens of such inscriptions that collectively map the theology of divine patronage in the Lagašite revival after Akkadian imperial collapse.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 073

Attests Gudea's construction of the E-kitušakkile for Šul-šagana, son of the city-god Ninĝirsu — adding one temple to the documented building programme that defined Lagaš's late third-millennium religious landscape.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 075

Records Gudea's restoration of the city wall of Ĝirsu, attesting the ruler of Lagaš's building piety toward Ninĝirsu during the post-Akkadian revival of Sumerian royal inscription traditions.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 086

One of the Gudea corpus inscriptions commemorating construction of the E-ninnu temple at Lagaš: a witness to the Sumerian ruler's self-presentation as pious builder rather than military conqueror.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 101add

Records Gudea of Lagaš's construction of the E-ninnu temple for Ninĝirsu and the erection of a commemorative stela — evidence of the votive building programs through which Lagašite rulers articulated divine patronage.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 102add

Attests Gudea's construction of a temple to Ninkar at Niggin, expanding the documented roster of cultic building projects undertaken by Lagash's most prolific royal builder.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Gudea 105add

Attests Gudea of Lagaš's restoration of Niĝin and construction of the E-sirara temple for Nanše, goddess of boundaries and justice — anchoring his building program to divine patronage over law and border administration.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Lu-Utu 03add

Attests Lu-Utu of Umma's temple construction for Ninhursaĝa, adding a data point to the cluster of late Akkadian-period governors who anchored political legitimacy in public religious building.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Lu-Utu 2

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.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Nammahni 02

Attests Nammahni of Lagaš's construction of the E-ninnu temple and a cedarwood audience chamber for Ninĝirsu, placing this ruler — often overshadowed by Gudea — in the monumental building tradition of late third-millennium Lagaš.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Nammahni 03

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Nammahni, the last independent ruler of Lagaš before Ur-Namma's unification under Ur III, attesting his titulature at the close of the Akkadian period.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Ur-Bau 01

Dedicatory inscription of Ur-Bau of Lagash recording the construction of a temple to Bau in Iri-kug: direct epigraphic evidence for royal temple-building patronage in the late Akkadian period.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Ur-Bau 04

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.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Ur-Bau 06

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.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Ur-Bau 12

Attests the title 'spouse of Nanna' for an en priestess of Lagaš under Ur-Bau, anchoring the sacred marriage institution in the Akkadian period a generation before the Ur III florescence.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Ur-Bau 13

Dedicatory inscription naming En-Ane-pada, en-priestess of Nanna and daughter of Ur-Bau of Lagaš: direct epigraphic evidence linking the ruling dynasty to the moon-god's cult in the generation before Gudea.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2130 BCE·Akkadian EmpireETCSRI

Ur-Ningirsu II 02

Attests Ur-Ningirsu II's continuation of his father Gudea's building program at Lagash, anchoring the post-Akkadian Lagashite dynasty's legitimacy through temple patronage of Ningirsu's Eninnu.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

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