All tablets.

Ur-Ningirsu I 1

(1) For Ninmarki, the kind woman, the first-born child of Nanše, Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš built her E-munus-gisa.

Ur-Ningirsu I 2

(i 1') ... he šhose ... by eₓtispišy. (i 2') For the kind protective spirit, Ninsumun, his personal deity, he built her house in Iri-kug. (i 7') ... Zazaru .... (ii 1') For Urnunta-ea, child of Ninĝirsu, he built her house in Iri-kug. (ii 5') For Ninmarki, the kind woman, he chose the šita-abba-priest by extispicy.

Ur-Ningirsu I 3

(1) To Ninmarki, his lady, ... dedicated this (marble tablet) for the well-being of Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, and for her/his own well-being.

Ur-Ningirsu I 4

(1) To the protective spirit, Bau, his lady, Nin-niĝare-si, (Ur-Ninĝirsu's) spouse, dedicated this (human-headed bull) for the well-being of Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, and for her own well-being. The name of this votive gift is “May my lady raise him!”

Ur-Ningirsu I 5

(1') To ..., Ur-dub, child of ..., dedicated this (mace) for the well-being of Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, and for his own well-being.

Ur-Ningirsu I 6

(i 1) To Bau, his lady, Ur-lugal-edenaka, the physician, dedicated this (stone plaque) for the well-being of Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, and for his own well-being.

Ur-Ningirsu II 01

(1) For Ninĝirsu, the powerful warrior of Enlil, his master, Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, son of Gudea, ruler of Lagaš, the builder of Ninĝirsu's E-ninnu, fashioned this (door socket).

Ur-Ningirsu II 03

(1) For Ninĝirsu, the powerful warrior of Enlil, his master, Ur-Ningirsu, ruler of Lagaš, son of Gudea, ruler of Lagaš, the builder of Ninĝirsu's E-ninnu, made the temple of Nanše adjacent to the gate of honest speech.

Ur-Ningirsu II 04

(1) For Ninĝirsu, the powerful warrior of Enlil, his master, Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of ....

Ur-Ningirsu II 05

(1) To Ninĝirsu, the powerful warrior of Enlil, his master, Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, son of Gudea, ruler of Lagaš, dedicated this (mace) for his well-being.

Ur-Ningirsu II 06

(i 1) For Ninĝišzida, his personal god, Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, son of Gudea, ruler of Lagaš, the builder Ninĝirsu's E-ninnu, fashioned his own statue. He named this statue for his sake “As I am someone loved by his personal god, may my life be prolonged!”, and brought it before him into his temple.

Ur-Ningirsu II 07

(i 1) For Ningišzida, his personal god, Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, son of Gudea, ruler of Lagaš ....

Ur-Ningirsu II 08

(1) For Ninĝišzida, his personal god, ... this (statuette) for the life of Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, ....

Ur-Ningirsu II 09

(1) Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, son of Gudea, ruler of Lagaš.

Ur-Ningirsu II 10

(1) Ur-Ninĝirsu, ruler of Lagaš, son of Gudea, ruler of Lagaš.

Utu-hegal 2

(1) Utu-heĝal, king of the four quarters, returned the border territory of Ninĝirsu, Enlil's powerful warrior, under (Ninĝirsu's) authority.

Utu-hegal 2001

(1) To Ningal, the beloved spouse of Suen, his lady, Ur-Namma, military governor of Urim, house-born slave of the E-kiš-nu-ĝal, his brother ... for the well-being of Utu-heĝal, the powerful man, king of Unug, king of four quarters.

Utu-hegal 2002

(1') To Nanna, king of the Anuna gods, his master, ... for the life of Utu-heĝal, the powerful man, king of Unug, king of the four quarters.

Utu-hegal 4 (The victory of Utu-hegal)

(1) Enlil, the king of all lands, entrusted Utu-heĝal, the powerful man, king of Unug, the king of the four quarters, the king whose orders cannot be countermanded, with wiping out the name of Gutium, the fanged snake of the mountains, who acted with violence against the gods, who carried off the rule over Sumer to a foreign land for himself, who filled Sumer with wickedness, who took away spouses from the married and took away children from parents, who made wickedness and violence normal in the Land. (24) He went to his lady, Inana, and prayed to her: “My lady, lioness in the battle, who…

Utu-hegal 5

(1') ... Inana ... Utu-heĝal, the powerful man, king of Unug, king of the four quarterṣ ....

Utu-hegal 6

(1) Whoever erases the inscription of Utu-heĝal, the powerful man, king of Unug, king of the four quarters, and writes his own name there — or make someone else do it on account of this curse —, or destroys this (bowl), may his reign be cut short, may his lineage come to an end! May An, the king of the gods, and Inana, lady of Unug, curse his ...!

E-IGI.NIM-pa'e 2

Commemorates E-iginim-pa'e of Adab's construction of the E-mah temple for the goddess Diĝir-mah, attesting royal building piety and the foundation-peg ritual at one of Sumer's lesser-documented city-states.

Laws of Lipit-Eštar (RIME 4.01.05.add10 (Laws of Lipit-Ishtar) composite)

Predates Hammurabi by roughly 150 years, recording Lipit-Eštar's mandate from An and Enlil to 'establish justice' — an early articulation of the Mesopotamian ideology that divine authority underwrites royal law-giving.

Law·Religion & Myth

Lugal-ayamu 2001

Records Ur-Imma's temple construction for Damgalnuna at Adab under the administrator Lugal-ayaĝu, attesting early Ur III institutional religion: a slave-born temple builder rewarded with divine favour for his family's welfare.

Lugal-KISAL-si 1

Dedicatory inscription of Lugal-kisalesi attests a king ruling both Uruk and Ur simultaneously, documenting a rare dual kingship in the late Early Dynastic–Ur III transitional period.

Šaratigubisin 1add (CUSAS 17, 014)

Attests a royal child holding the office of temple administrator (šabra) at Keš, documenting how Ur III kings extended dynastic control over provincial sanctuaries through direct family appointments.

Sin-kašid 02

Royal building inscription of Sin-kašid attesting his dual titles — king of Uruk and of the Amnanum tribe — evidence that Amorite chieftains ruled major Sumerian cities in the Isin-Larsa period.

Sin-kašid 03

Attests Sin-kašid's dual title — king of Uruk and king of the Amnanum tribe — anchoring his otherwise poorly documented dynasty within both civic and tribal power structures of post-Ur III Babylonia.

Sin-kašid 04

Attests Sin-kašid's dual role as builder of Uruk's great Inana temple (the E-ana) and of his own palace, anchoring his reign within the tradition of legitimacy-through-temple-construction.

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

Tulili 1 (CUSAS 17, 003)

A dedicatory inscription to Inana naming an otherwise obscure Ur III ruler or official named Tulili — one of the few epigraphic traces anchoring this individual within the Sumerian royal tradition.

Unattributed 04 (unpublished unassigned ?)

A fragmentary Ur III royal inscription (ETCSRI Q008910) in which a ruler names an object or structure as a prayer-formula addressed to a goddess — attesting the dedicatory naming convention that wove piety directly into monumental or votive language.

Ur-Enlil 1

Dedicates a votive bowl to Ninlil for the well-being of Ur-Enlil, ruler of Nippur — attesting a local ruler otherwise poorly documented in the Ur III administrative record.

Ur-Enlil 2

Dedicates a votive offering to Enlil at Nippur, attesting the ritual obligations by which Ur III rulers legitimised their authority through the great state sanctuary.

Ur-nigina 1

Attests a Ur III military governor's temple-building at Patibira for the goddess Ninšešeĝara — localising otherwise poorly documented Sumerian religious patronage below the royal tier.

Ur-Ninmarki 2 (FAOS 09/2, Ninmarki 2)

Votive dedication of a mace by the governor of Lagaš to Šul-šagana, child of the city-god Ninĝirsu — attesting the personal piety and divine patronage networks through which Ur III provincial rulers legitimised their authority.

Ur-zage 1

Dedicatory inscription naming Ur-zage as king of Kiš attests a Sumerian ruler otherwise poorly documented, adding a data point to the contested royal succession of the Ur III period.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

E-IGI.NIM-pa'e 1

(1) For Diĝir-mah, E-iginim-pa-e, ruler of Adab, ..., builder of the E-mah.