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Page 175 / 1598

~2100 BCE·

Ur III · Neo-Sumerian

ETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 22add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 22)

(1) Guards of the city wall: Amar-ezen, the captain. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 24add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 24)

(1) Guards of the city wall: Dundun, the captain. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 32add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 32)

(1) Guards of the city wall: Inana-ursaĝ, overseer of the palace staff. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 34add

(i 1') ... were the rulerś onion plots. (i 5') The team donkeys and the unblemished oxen .... (ii 1') Bau became the owner of all the households and fields of the female (members' of the ruler's family). ... all the households fields of the (ruler's) children. (iii 1') The ... of Niĝin are (entitled to) 180 loaves of bread and and 1 mud vessel of beer. (iii 5') The double men's toll through the gate (of the netherworld) is revoked.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Utuk/Uhub 1

(1) For Zababa, Uhub, ruler of Kiš, ....

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 059, 1924-0553

24 talents of gir₂-gul wool, (measured) with the stone-weight of 1 talent, 1 2/3 mina each; via Šulgi-mišar; wool of the sheep-house of Tummal. From [...]-Inanna; delivery. Nūr-Suen has received (it). Month: Šu-eša, year: "The throne of Enlil was fashioned."

URU-KA-gina 22add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 22)

URU-KA-gina 24add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 24)

URU-KA-gina 32add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 32)

URU-KA-gina 34add

Utuk/Uhub 1

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 059, 1924-0553

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 093, 1935-541

MS 1739/1

AuOr 31, 232 01

MVN 05, 027

Nisaba 17, 005a-d

AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 433

Akkadica 114-115, 095 02

ASJ 09, 252 32

ASJ 09, 254 35

ASJ 09, 254 36

ASJ 09, 254 37

ASJ 09, 255 38

ASJ 09, 255 40

AUCT 1, 009

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AUCT 1, 059

AUCT 1, 086

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AUCT 1, 349

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AUCT 1, 697

AUCT 1, 714

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AUCT 1, 950

AUCT 2, 039

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AUCT 3, 297

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