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  • Iraq, Ūr
  • geo:30.962872,46.103394
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Ur-Nammu Stela

data access 41293

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

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-04-26) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/41293
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Suggested citation: , E. , Ur-Nammu Stela. https://vici.org/vici/41293, accessed 2026-09-23.