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Surroundings:

ZigguratUr, E-dublal-mahUr, planUr, E-giparUr, zigguratE-hursagUr, So-called Imdugud Relief

Location:

  • Iraq, Ūr
  • geo:30.962872,46.103394
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=41293

Annotations

King of Ur  - Ur-Namma, Ur-Engur, Ur-Gur reign  ca. 2047-2030 BC. In 1925, a shattered nine-foot tall limestone pillar and smaller pieces of it scattered in th ecourtyard of the was discovered in the courtyard of the temple E-Dublalmah of ancient Ur.

See:

  1. Jeanny Vorys Canby, A Monumental Puzzle - Reconstructing the Ur-Nammu Stela, Expedition 29/1 (1987), pp. 54-64 - https://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/29-1/Monumental1.pdf

Nearby

Ziggurat of Ur (Urim) - Etemennigur

Sumerian Urim at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar. Great Ziggurat of Ur - E-temen-nigur(u)

Edublalmah, Ur [Urim]

E.dublalmah serving as a “Place of Judgement” E-Dub-Lal-Mah

Urim - Ur Sumerian, Temple of Nanna

Chaldeans Ur - schrine of Nanna.


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