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Encyclopedia > Lament for Ur

The Lament for Ur is a Sumerian lament composed after the fall of Ur to the Elamites and the end of the city's third dynasty (c. 2000 BCE). It contains one (possibly the first) of five known Mesopotamian "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city's tutelary goddess—within its eleven kirugu (sections or stanzas). In this case it is Ningal who weeps for her city, after pleading with the god Enlil to call back his destructive storm. Interspersed with the goddess's wailing are other sections, possibly of different origin and composition; these describe the ghost town that Ur has become, recount the wrath of Enlil's storm, and invoke the protection of the god Nanna against future calamities. Sumer (or Shumer, Sumeria, Shinar, native ki-en-gir) formed the southern part of Mesopotamia from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until the time of Babylonia. ... A lament is a song or poem expressing grief or regret. ... Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, originally located near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. ... The ancient Elamite Empire lay to the east of Sumer and Akkad, in what is now southwestern Iran. ... The third dynasty of Ur reinstalled Sumerian rule after several centuries of Akkadian and Gutian kings (Sumerian Renaissance). ... (Redirected from 2000 BCE) (21st century BC - 20th century BC - 19th century BC - other centuries) (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC) Events 2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt 2000 BC -- Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya. ... A tutelary spirit is a god, usually a minor god, who serves as the guardian or watcher over a particular site, person, or nation. ... In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. ... Nanna is a god in Sumerian mythology, god of the moon, son of Enlil and Ninlil. ... Enlil was the name of a chief deity in Babylonian religion, perhaps pronounced and sometimes rendered in translations as Ellil in later Akkadian. ... A street corner in the ghost town of Bodie, California. ... Nanna is a god in Sumerian mythology, god of the moon, son of Enlil and Ninlil. ...


Samuel Noah Kramer compiled twenty-two different fragments into the first complete edition of the Lament, which was published in 1940 by the University of Chicago as Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur (Assyriological Study no. 12). 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ...


The other city laments are:

  • The Lament for Sumer and Ur
  • The Lament for Nippur
  • The Lament for Eridu
  • The Lament for Uruk

The Biblical Book of Lamentations, which bewails the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, is similar in theme and style to these Mesopotamian laments. The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. ... Nebuchadnezzar (or Nebudchadrezzar) II (ca. ...


External links

  • Translation of the Lament (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcslmac.cgi?text=t.2.2.2&charenc=j#), from the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
  • Composite text (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcslmac.cgi?text=c.2.2.2&display=Crit&charenc=j), also from ETCSL

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Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Ur (1523 words)
Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, originally located near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu.
Ur was inhabited in the earliest stage of village settlement in southern Mesopotamia, the Ubaid period.
Biblical Ur Ur is mentioned four times in the Tanakh or Old Testament, as with the distinction "of the Kasdim/Kasdin", which is traditionally rendered in English "Ur of the Chaldees", referring to the Chaldeans, who settled there around 900 BC.
Sumeria, The City Of Ur (905 words)
Ur was the principal center of worship of the Sumerian moon god Nanna and of his Babylonian equivalent Sin.
Ur was one of the first village settlements founded (circa 4000 BC) by the so-called Ubaidian inhabitants of Sumer.
The findings left little doubt that the deaths of the king and queen of Ur were followed by the voluntary death of their courtiers and personal attendants and of the court soldiers and musicians.
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