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~2053 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aleppo 031
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 031. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2053 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aleppo 397
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 397. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2053 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AnOr 07, 067
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 07, 067. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy~2052 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianOur engine
Anonymous 497528
1 5/6 sila3 syrup (lal3), 10 gin2 fine oil (ir-nun-oil), from Ur-gu'enna(?), goods for the festival, month: "Harvest" (Še-sag11-ku5?), under seal of Lu-Ningirsu. Year: "Urbilum was destroyed." Lu-Ningirsu, scribe.
Economy
~2052 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aegyptus 29, 109, 39
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aegyptus 29, 109, 39. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 546
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 546. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AAS 039
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAS 039. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AAS 086
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAS 086. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
ACI 06
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — ACI 06. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aegyptus 26, 159 07
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aegyptus 26, 159 07. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aegyptus 26, 161 09
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aegyptus 26, 161 09. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aleppo 165
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 165. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aleppo 167
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 167. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aleppo 178
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 178. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aleppo 182
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 182. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
Aleppo 234
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Aleppo 234. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AnOr 01, 004
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 01, 004. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AnOr 01, 019
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 01, 019. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AnOr 01, 045
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 01, 045. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AnOr 01, 089
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 01, 089. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2051 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial
AnOr 01, 106
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 01, 106. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Amar-Suena 10
Dedicatory curse clause invokes Nanna and Ningal against anyone who displaces the statue, preserving the standard Ur III formula for protecting royal monuments through divine sanction rather than human enforcement.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Amar-Suena 12
Records Amar-Suena's construction of a royal jail at Ur — one of the earliest explicit textual attestations of a dedicated carceral institution in Mesopotamian history.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Amar-Suena 15
Dedicatory inscription of Amar-Suena for Enki's Abzu temple at Eridu, attesting the third Ur III king's building programme and his claim to universal rule under Enlil's authority.
Religion & MythWriting & Literature
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Amar-Suena 16
Records Amar-Suena's foundation of the first ĝipar (high-priestess residence) at Karzida, attesting the Ur III crown's active role in extending Nanna's cult into previously unserved cult centres.
Religion & MythWriting & Literature
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Amar-Suena 18
Preserves a royal titulary of Amar-Suena — 'king of Urim, king of the four quarters' — attesting the ideological claim to universal sovereignty that defined Ur III kingship at its height.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Amar-Suena 2009
A private votive dedication by a scribe's wife to the goddess Lamma, it attests the personal piety of literate households under Amar-Suena and the role of women as independent dedicants in Ur III religious life.
Religion & MythWriting & Literature
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Amar-Suena 21
Dedicatory inscription naming Taddin-Eštar as a royal child of Amar-Suena, adding a personal name to the otherwise sparse prosopography of the Ur III royal family.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Ibbi-Suen 01
Ibbi-Suen's own account of fortifying Ur's walls — the defensive building programme of the last king of the Ur III dynasty, undertaken as Amorite pressure and internal fragmentation were already straining the empire he claimed to rule.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Ibbi-Suen 2014
Dedicatory inscription naming Ibbi-Suen's personal deity Mešlamta-ea: one of the few surviving epigraphic witnesses to the personal piety of Ur III's last king before Ur fell to the Elamites.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šu-Suen 03
Records Šu-Suen's systematic disposal of conquered populations — blinded men assigned to temple orchards, women to textile mills — documenting the Ur III state's institutionalised exploitation of war captives as temple labour.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šu-Suen 2018
Dedicates a bronze axe to the god Šara on behalf of Šu-Suen, attesting the votive inscription habit by which Ur III officials tied personal piety to royal legitimacy.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šu-Suen 27
A fragmentary royal inscription of Šu-Suen attesting the standard Ur III ideological formula linking kingship to Enlil's personal favour — evidence of how the dynasty legitimised rule through divine election language.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 03
Dedicatory inscription recording Šulgi's construction of the E-ḫursaĝ palace-temple at Ur, attesting royal building patronage as a mechanism of divine legitimacy in the Ur III state.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 06
Attests Šulgi's building works at the E-ana temple complex in Uruk, linking his patronage of Inana's cult to his claim over the dual title 'king of Sumer and Akkad.'
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 09
Attests Šulgi's construction of the E-šeššeše-ĝara for Nanše at Lagash, placing royal temple-building patronage at the intersection of Ur III statecraft and the goddess's traditional role as divine judge of social justice.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 10
Dedicates the E-šeššeše-ĝara temple to Nanše, goddess of social justice and boundaries, placing Šulgi's building patronage within the religious infrastructure that legitimised Ur III royal authority.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 100add
Attests Šulgi's patronage of Martu, the Amorite deity, inside a Sumerian royal titulary — evidence that Ur III kings co-opted tribal gods to consolidate legitimacy on their western frontier.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 13
Dedicatory inscription recording Šulgi's construction of Ninmarki's temple E-munus-gisa at Ĝirsu, anchoring the king's patronage of local cults within his broader claim to rule all Sumer and Akkad.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 15
Dedicatory inscription anchoring Šulgi's construction of the Bagara temple to Ninĝirsu at Lagash — evidence that the Ur III kings extended royal building patronage to cults beyond their capital at Ur.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 20
Attests Šulgi's construction of the E-dur-anki, anchoring his building program at Ur to the goddess Inana and the ideological fusion of military power with divine patronage in the Ur III state.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 2001
Votive dedication to Ninhursaĝa naming Šulgi by his full titulary — 'king of Sumer and Akkad' — attesting the ideological claim to universal kingship that defined Ur III imperial identity.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 2032
A priestly dedication to Ninmarki and Nanše for Šulgi's well-being, attesting how Ur III cult officials used votive inscriptions to link temple service with royal legitimacy.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 22
Attests Šulgi's full titulary — 'king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad' — one data point in the composite epigraphic record mapping how Ur III rulers projected sovereignty across a unified southern Mesopotamia.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 34
Dedicatory inscription naming Šullat and Haniš — storm-deity pair better known as heralds of the Flood in later myth — as recipients of a royal temple built by Šulgi, attesting their independent cult under Ur III patronage.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 39 (and Šulgi 45)
Attests Šulgi's full royal titulature — 'king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad' — the ideological formula by which the Ur III dynasty claimed sovereignty over the entire known civilised world.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 40
One of the royal inscriptions of Šulgi — the Ur III king who standardized weights, measures, and law — attesting his titulary as 'king of Urim' across multiple manuscript witnesses.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 41
One of the composite royal inscriptions of Šulgi of Ur III, attesting the titulary and self-presentation of a king whose 48-year reign shaped Sumerian administrative and literary culture around 2094–2046 BCE.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 66
A dedicatory inscription to Inana naming Šulgi as king of Ur, attesting the ideological fusion of divine patronage and royal legitimacy at the height of Ur III imperial power.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI
Šulgi 88
Dedicatory bead inscription to Ninlil naming Šulgi's child Ninturturĝu: the curse clause attests the legal-religious mechanism Ur III kings used to protect monuments from later erasure or usurpation.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth