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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 13

A weight-stone inscription certifying a 15-shekel standard in Ninĝirsu's name: direct physical evidence that Iri-kagina enforced metrological authority through dedicated cultic weights at Ĝirsu.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14a

(1) This (tree whose name is:) "Ninĝirsu will not revoke what he has agreed on with Iri-kagina" was planted by Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš"

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14b

(1) This (tree whose name is:) "Ninĝirsu assigned position to Iri-kagina" was planted by Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš"

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14c

(1) The datepalm tree standing on the right side, whose name is "Then king is never tired of caring for Eridug", was planted by Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš. (Year) 3."

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14d

(1) The 80 meš trees of third quality, from the garden of the personal quarters, were planted by Iri-kagina, king of Ŋirsu within the shrine. (Year) 10."

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14f

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Ninĝirsu cast his protecting arms over Iri-kagina like an anzud bird".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14g

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Ninĝirsu decided with Bau in favour of Iri-kagina in the temple of Unug".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14h

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau is the mother of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14i

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau is the counsellor of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14j

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau is the vigour of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14k

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau takes care of Iri-kagina's throne".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14l

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau declared: 'The crushing youth is Iri-kagina'".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14m

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau is the guide of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14n

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau is the true diadem of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14o

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau confirmed what was told by Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14p

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau, who is worthy of the dais of Irikug, loves Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14q

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau, the "May all bow down!" of Irikug, bore Iri-kagina to be a shepherd".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14r

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau, the daughter-in-law of Eridug, walks in front of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14s

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau stood by the entreaties of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14t

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau stood by the prayers of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14u

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau's love for Iri-kagina is never ending".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14v

Names Bau as the divine authority who installed Iri-kagina (Urukagina) in office — corroborating the reformer king's ideological claim that his rule, and his celebrated social reforms, derived from divine mandate rather than conquest.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 14w

(1) The name of this (object) is: "Bau is the protector of Iri-kagina".

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 17add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 17, B)

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

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 19add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 19)

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

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 20add (Amherst 003)

(1) Guards of the city wall: Lugal-metena. the man of Inim-duga. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 21add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 21)

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

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

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

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

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 23add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 23)

Names Iri-kagina (Uruinimgina) as king of Lagaš alongside a named wall-guard captain — corroborating the civic-military administration documented in his celebrated reform inscriptions.

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~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.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 25add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 25)

Names Iri-kagina (Urukagina) as king of Lagaš alongside a named wall-guard captain, attesting the military-administrative personnel of the city during the reign famous for history's earliest recorded social reforms.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 26add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 26)

Names Iri-kagina (Urukagina) as king of Lagaš and records a wall-guard appointment — administrative evidence from the reign of the ruler whose reforms are the earliest known attempt to codify social justice.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 27add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 27)

Names the wall-guard captain Urdu under Iri-kagina (Urukagina) of Lagaš: a rare administrative snapshot of military garrison command in the city credited with history's earliest recorded social reforms.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 28add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 28)

Names a wall-guard captain under Iri-kagina (Urukagina) of Lagaš, adding a rare administrative title to the prosopography of the ruler whose reforms are the earliest social-justice legislation known.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 29add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 29)

Names a city-wall guard captain under Iri-kagina (Urukagina) of Lagaš — administrative detail anchoring the ruler's security apparatus during the reform period that preceded Lugalzagesi's conquest.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 30add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 30)

Names a city-wall guard captain under Iri-kagina (Urukagina) of Lagaš, adding a rare prosopographic data point to the reign of the ruler credited with history's earliest recorded social reforms.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 31add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 31)

Names the captain of Lagaš's city-wall guard in Iri-kagina's fifth regnal year, supplying a rare dated administrative snapshot of urban military organisation in the Early Dynastic III period.

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~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.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

URU-KA-gina 33add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 33)

Names Iri-kagina (Urukagina) as king of Lagaš and assigns city-wall guards a pastoral role — a concrete fragment of the administrative vocabulary behind his celebrated reform edicts.

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~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.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Uruna-badbi 2001

A votive inscription in which a temple scribe dedicates an offering vessel to Ninlil on behalf of multiple named individuals, attesting the personal piety and social networks of literate cult personnel in the Ur III temple economy.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Utuk/Uhub 1

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

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~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 433

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 433. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature
~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

Aegyptus 29, 107, 35

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aegyptus 29, 107, 35. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature
~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

Akkadica 114-115, 095 02

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Akkadica 114-115, 095 02. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature
~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

Akkadica 114-115, 095 03

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Akkadica 114-115, 095 03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature
~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

Aleppo 253

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 253. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature
~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

AnOr 01, 011

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 01, 011. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature
~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

AnOr 07, 022

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 07, 022. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature
~2099 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

AnOr 07, 029

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 07, 029. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature