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    Ur-Nammu (or Ur-Namma, Ur-Engur, Ur-Gur, Sumerian: 𒌨𒀭𒇉, ruled c. 2112 BC – 2094 BC middle chronology) founded the Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, in...
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    Codex Ur-Nammu from Sippar". Orientalia. 50 (1): 87–97. JSTOR 43075013. Badamchi, Hossein (2017). "Usurpation of Agricultural Land and Codex Ur-Namma, 39"...
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    The daughters of Sulgi and Ur-Namma were priestesses of important temples and Sulgi's brother was priest of Innana of Ur and the royal family controlled...
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  • ORR-West Line is an upcoming metro line serving Bangalore as part of the Namma Metro network in the city. This metro line will serve the industrial areas...
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  • merely for show or decoration. The poem also praises Ur-Namma, indicating its composition in the Ur III period. Two of the other six disputation poems (Bird...
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    Reigns of Kings of Ur and Isin" (MS 1686). The list explains: "18 years Ur-Namma [was] king, 48 years Shulgi [was] king, 9 years Amar-Suen, 9 years Su-Suen...
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    Namma Metro (transl. Our Metro), also known as Bengaluru Metro, is a rapid transit system serving the city of Bengaluru, the capital city of the state...
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    The Yellow Line of Namma Metro is under construction and will form part of the metro rail network for the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The 18...
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    Cuneiform inscriptions. By the rule of Ur-Namma, foundation pegs were inscribed in Sumerian. One example is the bust of King Ur-Nammu, the inscription of which...
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    often span thousands of years. In the oldest known version, dated to the Ur III period (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BC) but probably based on Akkadian source material...
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    of a king of Ur, 𒌨𒀭𒇉, read Ur-Bau at one time[citation needed], was later read as Ur-Engur, and is now read as Ur-Nammu or Ur-Namma; for Lugal-zage-si...
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  • Lagash (section Ur-Nanshe)
    fact that Ur-Baba appointed Enanepada as high preiestess of Ur while Naram-Sin of Akkad had appointed her predecessor Enmenana and Ur-Namma of Ur appointed...
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  • mentioned in a few literary texts, including Death of Gilgamesh and Death of Ur-Namma, in both cases being undertaken by the eponymous protagonist. Incantations...
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    Zólyomi (2017: 39) Jagersma (2009: 220-225) Wilcke, Claus 2013. ’Dieser Ur-Namma hier… Eine auf die Darstellung weisende Statueninschrift.’ Revue d’assyriologie...
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  • administrative buildings. The palace included funerary chapels for Ur-Nammu (e Tum-ma-al Ur-dNamma) and his wife. Building materials came from as far away as...
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    Enheduanna (category Ur)
    (high) priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad (r. c. 2334 – c. 2279 BCE). She...
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  • Nammu (redirect from Namma)
    Nammu (𒀭𒇉 dENGUR = dLAGAB×ḪAL; also read Namma) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as a creator deity in the local theology of Eridu. It is assumed...
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  • enters through the seven gates of the underworld. In the text Death of Ur-Namma, Bitu is absent, but seven anonymous doorkeepers are mentioned among the...
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    SBL. ISBN 1-58983-083-0 Reallexikon der Assyriologie 7, p. 131. See also Ur-Namma hymns and Shulgi hymns Sjöberg, Äke W. (1972) “Die Göttliche Abstammung...
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    29.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Portrait of Ur-Ningirsu. Louvre Museum Foundation figure of Ur-Namma holding a basket; 2112-2095 BC; copper alloy; height:...
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  • oxen in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature The death of Ur-Namma in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Enki and the World...
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    instead interpreted as a depiction of Nanna and Ningal from the reign of Ur-Namma). Such images were meant to highlight that the divine couples, depicted...
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  • Mesopotamia at the time. There is evidence that the first kings of the Ur III dynasty, Ur-Namma and Shulgi, were active participants in the cult of Ninegal. She...
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    Sabadell: Ausa. 1996. “Literary text about Ur-Namma.” Aula Orientalis 14: 163–67. 1997. “The Instructions of king Ur-Ninurta: A new fragment.” Aula Orientalis...
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    Hansen. Eisenbrauns. p. 233. ISBN 978-1-57506-055-2. "According to one of Ur-Namma's inscriptions, which describes his conflict with Puzur-Inˇsuˇsinak, the...
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    29.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Portrait of Ur-Ningirsu. Louvre Museum Foundation figure of Ur-Namma holding a basket; 2112-2095 BC; copper alloy; height:...
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    Lugal-kisalsi (category Kings of Ur)
    Inscription: "For (goddess) Namma, wife of (the god) An, Lugalkisalsi, King of Uruk, King of Ur, erected this temple of Namma". Male bust, perhaps Lugal-kisal-si...
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    Benniganahalli metro station (category Namma Metro stations)
    is an elevated metro station on the east-west Purple Line of Bengaluru's Namma Metro transit system. In its vicinity are the Tin Factory Junction leading...
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  • Naram-Sin. Numushda continued to be worshiped in the Ur III period. A cadastre from the reign of Ur-Namma demarcating newly established provinces of his kingdom...
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  • Introduction: The Reigns of Ur-Namma and Shulgi of Ur", An Ox of One's Own: Royal Wives and Religion at the Court of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Berlin, Boston: De...
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