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The Ziggurat of Ur, rebuilt and enlarged many times, was founded by the Third Dynasty of Ur. When Kings of the Third Ur dynasty ruled they had specific dates and names for each period of their rule. One example was "the year of Ur-nammu king," which marked Ur-Nammu's coronation. Another important time was the year named "The threshed grain of ...
Articles related to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 BC – c. 2004 BC), a Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur, and to its short-lived territorial-political state which some historians consider to have been a nascent empire. The Third Dynasty of Ur was the last Sumerian dynasty which came to preeminent power in Mesopotamia.
Ur-Nammu (or Ur-Namma, Ur-Engur, Ur-Gur, Sumerian: π¨ππ, ruled c. 2112 BC – 2094 BC middle chronology) founded the Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, in southern Mesopotamia, following several centuries of Akkadian and Gutian rule.
Utu-hengal (Sumerian: πππΆπ , D utu-αΈ«eβ-gΜalβ), also written Utu-hegΜal, Utu-heΔal, and sometimes transcribed as Utu-hegal, Utu-hejal, Utu-Khengal, was one of the first native kings of Sumer after two hundred years of Akkadian and Gutian rule, and was at the origin of the foundation of the Third Dynasty of Ur by his son-in-law Ur-Nammu.
Ur-Nammu was succeeded by Shulgi, the greatest king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, who solidified the hegemony of Ur and reformed the empire into a highly centralized bureaucratic state. Shulgi ruled for a long time (at least 42 years) and deified himself halfway through his rule.
Shulgi (πππ d šul-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 BC (Middle Chronology). [4] His accomplishments include the completion of construction of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, begun by his father Ur-Nammu.
Ur-Nammu was acknowledged by the priesthood at Nippur and crowned as sovereign of the two lands surrounding Nippur "to right and left". [9] The fourth king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Amar-Sin (r. 2046–2038 BC), was the first ruler to introduce the title šarru dannu ("mighty king"), replacing the earlier epithet dannum. [10]
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