• Thumbnail for Third Dynasty of Ur
    The Third Dynasty of Ur or Ur III was a Sumerian dynasty based in the city of Ur in the 22nd and 21st centuries BC (middle chronology). For a short period...
    39 KB (3,882 words) - 08:11, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Dynasty of Ur
    first dynasty of Ur (abbreviated Ur I) was a dynasty of rulers from the city of Ur in ancient Sumer who reigned c. 2600 – c. 2340 BC. Ur I is part of the...
    21 KB (1,203 words) - 19:21, 17 November 2024
  • plaque from Ur After a short period of chaos following the fall of the Akkadian Empire the third Ur dynasty was established when the king Ur-Nammu came...
    68 KB (7,269 words) - 13:44, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ur-Nammu
    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...
    28 KB (3,111 words) - 01:49, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Sumer
    the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE. It was followed by a transitional period of Amorite states before the rise of Babylonia in the...
    31 KB (3,229 words) - 21:00, 4 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lament for Ur
    Lament for Ur, or Lamentation over the city of Ur is a Sumerian lament composed around the time of the fall of Ur to the Elamites and the end of the city's...
    22 KB (2,686 words) - 22:44, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sumerian King List
    numbered dynasties to refer to the uninterrupted rule of a single city; hence the Ur III dynasty denotes the third time that the city of Ur assumed hegemony...
    72 KB (5,509 words) - 18:05, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shulgi
    Shulgi (redirect from Shulgi of ur)
    Shulgi (𒀭𒂄𒄀 dšul-gi, formerly read as Dungi) of Ur was the second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur. He reigned for 48 years, from c. 2094 – c. 2046...
    36 KB (3,946 words) - 14:55, 13 December 2024
  • Sumerian King List by the Third Dynasty of Ur. The Dynasty of Isin is often associated with the nearby and contemporary dynasty of Larsa (1961–1674 BCE),...
    62 KB (7,581 words) - 08:12, 17 December 2024
  • then the Third Dynasty of Ur. Prior to this, Assur had also for a time been one of the many Mesopotamian cities under the loose hegemony of the Sumerian...
    35 KB (4,289 words) - 16:10, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of institutions in Mesopotamia
    written code of laws of the history appeared, that of Ur Namma that was a list of norms although fragmented. It had three sections, the first of theological...
    31 KB (4,644 words) - 22:13, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old Babylonian Empire
    end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period. The chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia...
    23 KB (2,025 words) - 12:04, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ziggurat of Ur
    King Ur-Nammu, who dedicated it in honour of Nanna/Sîn in approximately the 21st century BCE (short chronology) during the Third Dynasty of Ur. The massive...
    11 KB (1,015 words) - 19:30, 3 December 2024
  • history of ancient Mesopotamia, which extends between the end of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the conquest of Mesopotamia by King Hammurabi of Babylon...
    12 KB (1,226 words) - 06:12, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Renaissance of Sumer
    so-called Third Dynasty of Ur or "Ur III" stand out, because of the new hegemony that would embrace all Mesopotamia, this time with the city of Ur at the...
    18 KB (2,393 words) - 11:43, 1 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Assyria
    Assyria (redirect from Rise of Assyria)
    the city was independent until the collapse of the Third Dynasty of Ur, in the 21st century BC, when a line of independent kings starting with Puzur-Ashur...
    140 KB (17,023 words) - 16:07, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Utu-hengal
    Utu-hengal (category Kings of Uruk)
    by his son-in-law, the governor of Ur, Ur-Nammu, as the king of Sumer. He was thus the only king of the fifth dynasty of Uruk. In fact Sumerian people have...
    12 KB (1,146 words) - 18:57, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anunnaki
    Anunnaki (category Epic of Gilgamesh)
    the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 BC – c. 2004 BC). The earliest known usages of the term Anunnaki come from inscriptions written during the reign of Gudea...
    33 KB (3,511 words) - 21:47, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neo-Sumerian art
    Neo-Sumerian art is a period in the art of Mesopotamia made during the Third Dynasty of Ur or Neo-Sumerian period, c. 2112 BC – c. 2004 BC, in Southern...
    11 KB (1,422 words) - 16:15, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gilgamesh
    Gilgamesh (redirect from Gilgamesh of Uruk)
    the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BC). Tales of Gilgamesh's legendary exploits are narrated in five surviving Sumerian poems. The earliest of these...
    67 KB (6,784 words) - 11:32, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gutian rule in Mesopotamia
    followed by Ur ruler Ur-Nammu (c. 2047–2030 BC), founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur. There are very few hard facts available regarding the rulers of the Gutian...
    35 KB (4,099 words) - 19:07, 17 November 2024
  • Middle Eastern empires (category History of West Asia)
    altogether. The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to a 22nd to 21st century BCE (middle chronology) ruling dynasty based in the...
    64 KB (8,363 words) - 05:13, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ninsun
    Ninsun (category Characters in the Epic of Gilgamesh)
    first meeting with Lugalbanda and their marriage. Kings from the Third Dynasty of Ur regarded Ninsun as their divine mother, and Gilgamesh as their brother...
    26 KB (3,292 words) - 20:33, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Babylon
    Babylon (redirect from City of Babylon)
    the time of the "Neo-Sumerian" Third Dynasty of Ur. (Bab-Il). A fragmentary inscription dating to the Early Dynastic Period, likely in the Akkadian language...
    98 KB (10,976 words) - 16:28, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ishbi-Erra
    Ishbi-Erra (category Dynasty of Isin)
    the founder of the dynasty of Isin, reigning from c. 2017— 1986 BC (MC). Ishbi-Erra was preceded by Ibbi-Sin of the third dynasty of Ur in ancient Lower...
    7 KB (806 words) - 20:55, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Epic of Gilgamesh
    (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames"), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BCE). These independent stories were...
    73 KB (8,725 words) - 00:02, 5 December 2024
  • identification with Amar-Sin, the third ruler of the Ur III dynasty. Some suggest that Amraphel is a Semitic name that is composed of two elements, "Amar", which...
    5 KB (489 words) - 17:23, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sumerian literature
    Correspondence of the Kings of Ur as well as Isin, Larsa, and other dynasties. The Code of Ur-Nammu is attributed to Ur-Nammu, founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur Code...
    9 KB (1,020 words) - 04:33, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D)
    Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D) is a Sumerian hymn dedicated to the Third Dynasty of Ur ruler Shulgi, written on clay tablets dated to between 2100 and...
    7 KB (666 words) - 02:37, 14 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Babylonia
    Babylonia (redirect from Sack of Babylon)
    earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire. The Babylonian Empire rapidly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and reverted...
    94 KB (12,350 words) - 12:04, 16 December 2024