UR-NAMMU

ŭr-nämˈoo, fl. 2060 b.c., king of the ancient city of Ur, sometimes called Zur-Nammu or Ur-Engur. He founded a new Sumerian dynasty, the third dynasty of Ur, that lasted a century. Ur-Nammu was the promulgator of the oldest code of law yet known, older by about three centuries than the code of Hammurabi. It consists of a prologue and seven laws; the prologue describes Ur-Nammu as a divinely appointed king who established justice throughout the land. This code is of great importance to the study of biblical law, which it predates by about five centuries. The two most famous monuments of Ur-Nammu's reign are the great ziggurat (temple) at Ur and his stele, of which fragments remain.

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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
Book by Samuel Noah Kramer; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981
Subjects: Sumerians
...was not practiced in the days of Ur-Nammu, at the close of the third millennium B.C. 18. Ur-Nammu: The First "Moses." Part of a...University Museum. In the middle panel Ur-Nammu is shown twice, standing and pouring...
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Light from the Ancient Past: The Archeological Background of the Hebrew-Christian Religion
Book by Jack Finegan; Princeton University Press, 1946
...in splendor. Its first king was Ur-Nammu who took the new title "King of...restored the ziggurat of Ur, begun by Ur-Nammu. The text reads: " Nabonidusking...gish-shir-gal in Ur, which Ur-Nammu, a king before me, had built but...
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Book by Leonard Cottrell; Hawthorn Books, 1960
Subjects: Archaeology--Dictionaries
...origins are still largely unknown. Ur-Nammu, king of Ur in southern Babylonia...the uncivilized Gutians. At first Ur-Nammu was only governor of Ur under the...One, however, reads "year when Ur-Nammu the king made straight the way from...
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World and Its Peoples - Vol. 2
Book by Marshall Cavendish; Marshall Cavendish, 2006
Subjects: Africa, North--Geography, Asia, Central--Geography, Middle East--Geography
...a period of anarchy 1( lIowed. UR-NAMMU AND SHULGI Some decades after N lt...agricultural and commercial tariffs. King Ur-Nammu died on ihe b,itile<I<.1d...were less memorable than those <>1 Ur-Nammu and Shulgi, and a gi:.id<ial...
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The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity - Vol. 1
Book by D. T. Potts; Clarendon Press, 1990
Subjects: Persian Gulf Region--Antiquities, Persian Gulf Region--History
...the chief son of Enlil, his lord, Ur-Nammu, the mighty male, the king of Ur...registry place ? trade was. . . Ur-Nammu restored the Magan trade lit. boat...hands. 241 Likewise, the Code of Ur-Nammu declares: By the might of Nanna...
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journal articles on: Ur Nammu  - 11 results

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More on the "Ur-Nammu" Stela
Journal article by Jeanny Vorys Canby; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
More on the "Ur-Nammu" Stela. by Jeanny Vorys Canby It was...reconstruction of what has been known as the "Ur-Nammu" stela for seventy-five years, however...Berlin museums are, like the old "Ur-Nammu" stela, combinations of fragments...
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A Historical Reading of Genesis 11:1-9: the Sumerian Demise and Dispersion under the Ur Iii Dynasty
Journal article by Paul T. Penley; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 50, 2007
...Subsequent kings of Sumer in the Ur III Dynasty followed suit (with the...During the religious revival under Ur-Nammu (a self-acclaimed servant of his...He built widely, not only at Ur itself, where he rebuilt the sacred...
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Naram-sîn of Uruk: a New King in an Old Shoebox
Journal article by Eva Von Dassow; Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 2009
...Woolley also found clay nails of Ur-Nammu in situ, thirty-six of them, embedded...it appears that the clay nails of Ur-Nammu were originally placed so that the...Warad-Sins clay nails, however, Ur-Nammus were inscribed only on the...
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Genre, Gender, and the Sumerian Lamentation
Journal article by Jerrold S. Cooper; Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 58, 2006
...to the use of Emesal in Shulgi X, certainly an Ur III composition, and the allusion to the emesal lament eden-na y-sag-ga in UN A (Death of Ur-Nammu), almost certainly also an Ur III composition, as evidence for the use of Emesal...
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Recent Insights into Mesopotamian Accounting of the 3rd Millennium B.c.-successor to Token Accounting
Journal article by Richard Mattessich; The Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 25, 1998
Subjects: Accounting procedures, Ancient civilizations, Archaeology, Bookkeeping, History, Middle East, Studies
...unusual document preserved from the Ur III period discloses crucial information...period and about 1 liter during the Ur III period) of dairy fat per shekel...Sargon of Akkad, Gudea of Lagash, Ur-Nammu, etc.) was apparently the driving...
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Iran/iraq
Magazine article by Nizar Wattad; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 21, November 2002
Subjects: Boycotts, International relations, Iran, Iraq, Schools, Women
...bronze statue of the Sumerian King Ur-Nammu, founder of the third Ur dynasty...225 miles south of Baghdad. King Ur-Nammu is best known as the man who announced...was promulgated. His law describes Ur-Nammu as a divinely appointed king who...
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Tracking Lost Empires
Magazine article by Emmett Berg, Louisa Woodville; Humanities, Vol. 25, November 2004
Subjects: Ancient civilizations, Architecture, Data bases, Historic buildings & sites, Historic preservation, Iraq, World Monuments Fund
...Khorsabad, Nimrud, and Hatra in the north and Ur, Uruk, Eridu and Borsippa in the south...Ziggurats from this time still stand at Ur and Nippur, including those built by the Sumerian king Ur-Nammu around 2100 B.C.E. "This fertile flood...


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U.S. Infantry Protects Ancient Treasures of Ur
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 20, 2003
Subjects: Abraham (Biblical figure)
...infantry surrounded the Ziggurat of Ur, a famous pyramid temple to the moon...of stars, the famed golden lyre of Ur, and a trove of cups, jewels and...of gold and silver. Sumerian King Ur-Nammu built the Ziggurat in roughly 2100...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ur Nammu  - 2 results

 
 
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Ur-Nammu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
UR-NAMMU ur-nam oo, fl. 2060 b.c., king of the ancient city of Ur, sometimes...new Sumerian dynasty, the third dynasty of Ur, that lasted a century. Ur-Nammu was the promulgator of the oldest code of law yet known, older by about...
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Ur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...established c.2060 b.c. under King Ur-Nammu , who built the great ziggurat that...1952) as a fragment of the code of Ur-Nammu. It predates the code of Hammurabi...discovered. The third dynasty of Ur fell (c.1950 b.c.) to the Elamites...


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