Position in chronology
Ur-zage 1
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) To Enlil, the king of all lands, and Ninlil, lady of heaven and earth, the grain-fed cow, (the source of) his butter, the spouse of Enlil, Ur-zag-e, king of Kiš, king of ....
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
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Why it matters
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.
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 Q001250.
Attribution
Image: CBS 09616 + CBS 09931 (+) CBS 09622 (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P222747). 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/Q001250/.
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