Position in chronology
Ur-Namma 47
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) To Gilgameš of Enegir, his master, Ur-Namma, the powerful man, king of Urim, king of Sumer and Akkad, when he built the temple of Nanna, dedicated this (vase) for his well-being. Whoever erases its inscription, may Gilgameš curse him!
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
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Why it matters
Dedicatory vow on a vase from Nanna's temple at Ur links Ur-Namma's building piety to Gilgameš as divine protector — and preserves one of the earliest epigraphic curse formulae against inscription erasure.
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 Q001642.
Attribution
Image: CBS 14968 (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) — from Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P461630). 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/Q001642/.
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