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Dedicatory inscription of Ur-Namma recording the establishment of a sacred garden and sanctuary for An at Ur: evidence that royal piety toward the sky-god took monumental, horticultural form a century before Hammurabi.
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Dedicatory inscription attesting Ur-Namma's construction of a temple for Ninšagepada — evidence that this otherwise obscure goddess held an active cult under the Third Dynasty of Ur.