Position in chronology
Ur-Namma 05
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) For An, king of the gods, his master, Ur-Namma, king of Urim, planted a lofty garden, (and) set up a sanctuary for him in a pure place.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
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Why it matters
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.
Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q000937.
Attribution
Image: BM 090296 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P226680). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q000937/.
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