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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

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.

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

Lagaš II Unidentified 1034add

(1') To ..., ... dedicated this (bowl) ....

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~2100 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianETCSRI

The building of Ningirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B)

(Cylinder A i 1) On the day when in heaven and earth the fates were to be decided, Lagaš emerged prominently with great divine powers, and Enlil looked at lord Ninĝirsu with approval. In our city an eternal thing appeared. The heart overflowed with joy, Enlil's heart, a river in flood, oveflowed with joy, and just as the Tigris brings sweet water, so Enlil, whose will is an enormous flood, sparkling, and awe-inspiring, came to a sweet decision: (Cylinder A i 9) "Its owner requested the temple and I will make the E-ninnu's divine powers known everywhere. Being a man of great wisdom, the ruler…

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

Lagaš II Unidentified 1034add

The building of Ningirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B)

Ur-ešlila 1

URU-KA-gina 02

URU-KA-gina 14c

Amar-Suena 2017add

Amar-Suena 2018add

Amar-Suena 2019add / CDLI Seals 000033

Amar-Suena 2040add

Amar-Suena 2052add / CDLI Seals 005891 (CDLI Seals 005891 (composite))

Amar-Suena 2060add

Amar-Suena 2061add

Amar-Suena 2062add

Amar-Suena 2063add

Ibbi-Suen 2022add

Ibbi-Suen 2023add

Ibbi-Suen 2046add

Ibbi-Suen 2058add

Ibbi-Suen 2068add

Ibbi-Suen 2072add

Ibbi-Suen 2074add

Ibbi-Suen 2092add / CDLI Seals 005581 (CDLI Seals 005581 (composite))

Šu-Suen 2034add

Šu-Suen 2043add / CDLI Seals 000071

Šu-Suen 2047add

Šu-Suen 2050add

Šu-Suen 2072add

Šu-Suen 2081add

Šu-Suen 2090add / CDLI Seals 005689 (CDLI Seals 005689 (composite))

Šu-Suen 2091add

Šu-Suen 2096add / CDLI Seals 000560 (CDLI Seals 000560 (composite))

Šu-Suen 2105add

Šu-Suen 2156add / CDLI Seals 005695 (CDLI Seals 005695 (composite))

Šulgi 102add (J.E. Reade -- J. Taylor, Beads of Possible Indus Origin with Sumerian Royal Inscriptions, in D. Frenez et al., eds., Walking with the Unicorn ..., Oxford: Archeopress, 527.)

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