Ur-Nammu
Sumerian king · Models · Lived 2000 BC to 2094 BC · aged -94
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Something wrong?He wrote the world's oldest known law code - not Hammurabi, but a Sumerian king three centuries earlier who laid down justice in cuneiform and built ziggurats that still stand in the sand.
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Ur-Nammu (name)
A brick stamped with the name of Ur-Nammu of Ur
Brick inscription Ur Namma AN1967.1504
British Museum Foundation Tablet
Bronze foundation figurine of Ur-Nammu from the Temple of Inanna at Uruk
Door socket Ur Namma Ashmolean
Fired mudbrick, stamped. The cuneiform inscription mentions the name of Ur-Nammu, 2 accidentally impressed dog's paw-marks near one edge. From the Ziggurat of Ur, Ur, Iraq. Ur III period, 21st century BCE. British Museum
Fired mudbrick, stamped. The cuneiform inscription mentions the name of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur. Two accidentally impressed dog's paw-marks near one edge. From the Ziggurat of Ur, Ur, Iraq. Ur III period, 21st century BCE. British MuseumIn their own words 7
, Who will dig it? Who will dig it? Who will dig the canal? Who will dig the Kec-kug canal? Who will dig the canal? Who will dig the Pabi-luh canal? Who will dig the canal?
My king, lord Acimbabbar, you are on your throne because of Enlil. Youthful Suen, lord Acimbabbar, you are on your throne because of Enlil.
Enki presented me with my broad wisdom.
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Ur-Nammu rose to power around 2112 BC in southern Mesopotamia, ending centuries of Akkadian and Gutian dominance by founding the Third Dynasty of Ur. He expanded his realm through military conquest, claiming the titles King of Ur and King of Sumer and Akkad, and poured the spoils into temples and canals across his domain. His legal code - the Code of Ur-Nammu - predates every other surviving written law by generations, a set of rulings carved in stone that would shape Near Eastern justice for a millennium. He began construction of the great Ziggurat of Ur, a stepped temple tower dedicated to the moon god, under the watch of his patron goddess Ninsuna. He died around 2094 BC, leaving behind an empire that would last a century and monuments that outlasted it by four thousand years.
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