History
Ur-Nammu
Founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur, builder of the great ziggurat that still stands, and the name on the oldest surviving law code.
Illustration of The Third Dynasty of Ur, not a likeness of any person on this page.
- Standing:
- A real person. Objects, inscriptions or archives made in their own lifetime carry their name.
- Reigned:
- c. 2112 to 2095 BCE
- City:
- Ur
- Period:
- The Third Dynasty of Ur · c. 2112 to 2004 BCE
What they did
raised the ziggurat at Ur, whose lowest stage has been reconstructed and can be stood on today; the Code of Ur-Nammu predates Hammurabi's by more than three centuries and sets compensation where the later code sets mutilation.
Sources
The references this entry is drawn from. ETCSL is the scholarly edition for the Sumerian texts; the rest are general references for the archaeology and the dates.
In the same period
Others our chronology places in The Third Dynasty of Ur.
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