• Thumbnail for Ur (cuneiform)
    related to Ur (cuneiform). The cuneiform sign ur (𒌨) is a common-use sign in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. It...
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  • of Ur during the Early Bronze Age. Proto-cuneiform tablets from the Early Dynastic period, c. 2900 BC, have been recovered. The First Dynasty of Ur seems...
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  • Thumbnail for Cuneiform
    contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Cuneiform is a...
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  • Educational Broadcasting Corporation Úr (ᚒ), a letter of the Ogham alphabet Ur (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign ur (digraph), a digraph in Central Alaskan...
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  • Thumbnail for Third Dynasty of Ur
    Dynasty of Ur with the length of their reigns, appears on a cuneiform document listing the kings of Ur and Isin, the "List of Reigns of Kings of Ur and Isin"...
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  • 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...
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  • BC. Archaic versions of cuneiform writing, including the Ur III (and earlier, ED III cuneiform of literature such as the Barton Cylinder) are not included...
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    period; these are mainly from Ur, with a few from Uruk. Thus, the 5000 years from the emergence of tokens to full cuneiform writing was about equal to the...
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  • Thumbnail for Code of Ur-Nammu
    would have missed the Ur-Nammu tablet altogether had it not been for an opportune letter from F. R. Kraus, now Professor of Cuneiform Studies at the University...
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  • two cuneiform scholars working with an experienced Unicode proposal writer in June 2004. The base character inventory is derived from the list of Ur III...
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  • 2900–2350 BC), also known as archaic cuneiform, but discontinued in the Ur III period. The original Cuneiform block, introduced in version 5.0 (July...
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  • Thumbnail for Lament for Ur
    The 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...
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  • Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians...
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  • Thumbnail for Royal Game of Ur
    Ur between 1922 and 1934. Copies of the game have since been found by other archaeologists across the Middle East. A partial description in cuneiform...
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  • Antediluvian King: Newly Recovered Content from the Ur Version of the Sumerian Flood Story". Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 70 (1): 37–51. doi:10.5615/jcunestud...
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    Sumer (section Ur III period)
    of cuneiform writing is a lengthy poem that was discovered in the ruins of Uruk. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in the standard Sumerian cuneiform. It...
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    Lugal (redirect from Lú (cuneiform))
    šarrum. Unicode also includes the cuneiform characters U+12218 𒈘 CUNEIFORM SIGN LUGAL OVER LUGAL, and U+12219 𒈙 CUNEIFORM SIGN LUGAL OPPOSING LUGAL. There...
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    detail). Walters Art Museum Foundation figurine of Ur-Baba Cuneiform dedication cone of Ur-Bau Ur-Baba inscription plaque enumerating the temples erected...
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    these names) are known after the scripts in which they were written: Cuneiform Luwian (CLuwian) and Hieroglyphic Luwian (HLuwian). There is no consensus...
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  • Thumbnail for Ziggurat
    A ziggurat (/ˈzɪɡʊˌræt/; Cuneiform: 𒅆𒂍𒉪, Akkadian: ziqqurratum, D-stem of zaqārum 'to protrude, to build high', cognate with other Semitic languages...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Hittite cuneiform
    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. This...
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  • two cuneiform scholars working with an experienced Unicode proposal writer in June 2004. The base character inventory is derived from the list of Ur III...
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    Umma (section Ur III period)
    Dynastic, Sargonic, Ur III, and Old Babylonian periods as well as an Ur III period temple and Old Babylonian residences. The cuneiform tablets are in the...
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    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Babylon...
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  • case of life … he shall die”. Akkadian Empire Eshnunna Cuneiform law Code of Hammurabi Code of Ur-Nammu Code of Lipit-Ishtar List of ancient legal codes...
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  • article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Adab...
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  • Lagash (section Ur-Nanshe)
    of Ur-Ningirsu in Pre-Ur III Lagash", acta sumerologica Japan 10, pp. 19–35, 1988 Finkelstein, J. J., "The Laws of Ur-Nammu", Journal of Cuneiform Studies...
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  • Thumbnail for Ur-Nanshe
    use of cuneiform on the figures to identify them are employed as in the Perforated Relief. 𒌨𒀭𒀏 / 𒈗 / 𒉢𒁓𒆷 / 𒌉𒄖𒉌𒁺 / 𒂍𒀭𒊩𒌆𒄈𒋢 / 𒈬𒆕 Ur-Nanshe...
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  • Thumbnail for Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir
    Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE. It is a complaint to a merchant named Ea-nāṣir, from...
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