Stela of Ur-Nammu, King of Ur, circa 2120 B.C. The King worshipping the gods of Ur before the building of the tower. Museum Object Number: B16676. Image Number: 8414. The great slab, as now restored in the Babylonian Section of the University Museum, is 10 feet high, 5 feet wide, and 1 foot thick. Front and back are divided by raised bands into. Ur-Nammu (or Ur-Namma, Ur-Engur, Ur-Gur, Sumerian:. Stele of Ur-Nammu, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. Ur Namma stele detail, Penn Museum. Code of Ur-Nammu. Fired mudbrick, stamped. The cuneiform inscription mentions the name of Ur-Nammu, and there are two presumably accidentally impressed dog's paw-marks.
UrNamu Stele B16676.14 Penn Museum Collections
The stela of Ur-Nammu, the largest sculptured slab recovered at Ur, is a monumental record of the building activities of the founder of the third dynasty. After the Guti had been driven out of the land by Utu-khegal of Uruk, the royalty passed to Ur, and for over a century Ur- Nammu and his successors ruled as kings of Sumer and Akkad, extended. The "Ur-Nammu" Stela. Ur-Nammu was king of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) around 2000 B.C. In 1925 a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum discovered dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur-Nammu. Because such works have rarely survived, the stela became one of the most famous. The stela of Ur-Nammu. The flying angel brings from heaven a vase overflowing with rain water. The king stands worshipping before the enthroned Moon god. The fragment belongs to the top register of the face. It has a similar scene on the reverse as shown on page 76. The stela dates from B.C. 2300. Penn Museum Object B16676.14 - Ur-Namu Stele. Ur-Namu Stele. B16676.14. Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries From: Iraq | Ur Curatorial Section: Near Eastern View All (2) Object Images
Ur Nammu Thule Italia
Ur-Nammu (r. 2047-2030 BCE) was the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur in Sumer who initiated the so-called Ur III Period (2047-1750 BCE) also known as the Sumerian Renaissance. He is best known as the king who composed the oldest extant law code in the world, the Code of Ur-Nammu.. An earlier law code (known as the Code of Urukagina from the 24th century BCE) is only known through partial. The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known law code surviving today. It is from Mesopotamia and is written on tablets, in the Sumerian language c. 2100-2050 BCE. It contains strong statements of royal power like "I eliminated enmity, violence, and cries for justice." [1] Ur-Nammu was king of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) around 2000 B.C. In 1925 a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum discovered dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur-Nammu. Because such works have rarely survived, the stela became one of the most famous examples of Near Eastern art, a status it retains today.The stela had been. The "Ur-Nammu" Stela Vol.: University Museum Monograph 110.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 40:12, 46: View Objects related to this Actual Citation [Book] Woolley, Charles L. Ur Excavations: The building of the Third Dynasty.. Published for the Trustees of the Two Museums by.
Museum Bulletin The Third Dynasty of Ur. The Stela of Ur Nammu
Of Ur-Nammu's early years, little is known with certainty. He apparently began his career as military commander of the city of Ur under Utu-hegel of Uruk, the heroic king who according to Mesopotamian historical tradition drove the barbarous Guti out of the lowlands. (The Guti, a tribal people from the northern Zagros mountains, are thought. Stela of Ur-Nammu, c. 2112-2094 BCE, limestone, 3 × 1.5 m (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology). This limestone stele, found in a very fragmentary state at Ur, has five narrative layers (registers) on both sides. They likely depict King Ur Nammu building and consecrating the major temple complex at Ur dedicated.
The "Ur-Nammu" Stela Vol.: University Museum Monograph 110.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 44:12, 51: View Objects related to this Actual Citation [Book] Woolley, Charles L. Ur Excavations: The building of the Third Dynasty.. Published for the Trustees of the Two Museums by. From Uruk, southern Iraq Third Dynasty of Ur, about 2100-2000 BC. The king as a temple builder with a basket of earth to make bricks. This bronze figure represents Ur-Nammu, the ruler of Ur (about 2112-2095 BC).It was made for burial in the foundations of a temple of Uruk. It was one of the duties of a Mesopotamian king to care for the gods and restore or rebuild their temples.
Detail of the Stele of UrNammu, Figurative GalleryWrapped Canvas Print Wall Art
Ur-Nammu's reconstruction and enlargement have buried and covered the small primitive tower. But, as luck would have it, his own tower decayed in time, and through the packing of later additions the summit of the older one is now visible, and with it the perfect plan of a miniature shrine which crowned it in the Uruk period.. The most ancient legislator known is Ur-Nammu, the founder of one of the Sumerian dynasties at the city of Ur. His code, dating from the middle of the 21st century bc,. perfect monument of Babylonian law is the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1758 bc), the main record of which was discovered on a stele, or stone monument, only in 1901-02. At the top.
