Position in chronology
URU-KA-gina 27add (FAOS 05/1, Ukg 27)
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) Guards of the city wall: Amar-Girid, the captain is Urdu. Iri-kagina, king of Lagaš.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
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Why it matters
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.
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 Q001143.
Attribution
Image: CBL CT 002 (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland) — from Girsu (mod. Tello) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P222629). 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/Q001143/.
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