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Lament for Nippur
The Lament for Nippur, also called the Lament for Nibru, is a Sumerian literary composition mourning the destruction of Nippur, the god Enlil's city, and its restoration.
Lament for Ur
The Lament for Ur, or Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur, is a Sumerian city lament mourning the fall of Ur to the Elamites in 2004 BCE.
Lament for Uruk
The Lament for Uruk, also known as the Lament for Unug, is a Sumerian city lament mourning the destruction of Unug, composed after the fall of Ur in 2004 BCE.
Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru
The land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru is a Babylonian inscribed stone monument commemorating a royal grant of land, part of a corpus of about 160 stones.
Land grant to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya kudurru
A Babylonian limestone kudurru of the Kassite period, recording King Meli-Šipak's grant of three settlements to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya, found at Susa and now in the Louvre.
Land grant to Marduk-apla-iddina I by Meli-Shipak II
A limestone kudurru boundary stone in the Louvre recording a land grant by the Babylonian king Meli-Shipak II to his son Marduk-apla-iddin, dated 1186–1172 BC.
Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru
The Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru is a Kassite-period Babylonian stone stela recording a royal grant of income-bearing land, displayed in a temple and protected by divine curses.
Larsa dynasty
The Larsa dynasty, also called the First Dynasty of Larsa, was an Amorite dynasty of Larsa in southern Iraq, ended by Hammurabi in 1763 BC.
Laws of Eshnunna
The Laws of Eshnunna, also called the Code of Eshnunna, is an Old Babylonian collection of 60 Akkadian legal rules, the earliest known in that language.
Letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu
The Letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu is an Old Babylonian clay tablet in the Louvre where a young man complains to his mother about his clothing.
Letter of Sargon II to Ashur
The Letter of Sargon II to Ashur is the only complete surviving Neo-Assyrian royal letter to a god, a clay tablet reporting Sargon II's 714 BC campaign against Urartu.
Lexical lists
Lexical lists are cuneiform lists of signs and words that Mesopotamian scribes used to teach writing and Sumerian vocabulary, invented at Uruk around 3200 BCE.
Libaya
Libaya was, according to the Assyrian King List, the 49th ruler of Assyria in the early Adaside dynasty, a son of Belu-bani who reigned 17 years.
Libbali-sharrat
Libbāli-šarrat was a 7th-century BC queen of Assyria, wife of King Ashurbanipal, known from her own stele from Assur and probably the garden banquet relief from Nineveh.
Library of Ashurbanipal
The Library of Ashurbanipal, also called the Royal Library of Nineveh, was the 7th-century BCE cuneiform tablet collection of Assyria's last great king; over 30,000 texts found at Kuyunjik include the fullest Epic of Gilgamesh.
Limer
Limer is the fifth of six legendary kings of Mari in the Sumerian King List, attributed a 30-year reign as a priest and known from no inscription.
Lipit-Enlil
Lipit-Enlil of Isin was the eighth king of the First Dynasty of Isin, a son of Būr-Sîn who ruled for five years, c. 1873-1869 BC.
Lipit-Ishtar
Lipit-Ishtar, also known as Lipit-Eštar, was the fifth king of the First Dynasty of Isin, reigning about 1934 to 1924 BC and best known for his Sumerian law code.
List of kings of Babylon
List of kings of Babylon: ancient Babylonian king lists (King List A, Uruk King List, Dynastic Chronicle) and Brinkman's modern eBL chronology, giving dynasties, regnal lengths, and the 1894–1595 First Dynasty dating.
Loss of Ur by Isin
The Loss of Ur by Isin was the capture of Ur by Gungunum of Larsa in 1926 BCE, ending roughly a century of Isin's control and shifting power toward Larsa.
Lu-diĝira
Lu-diĝira, also Lu-dingira, is the name of a Sumerian poet of about 1700 BC, known from the poem The message of Lu-diĝira to his mother.
Lu-Enlila
Lu-Enlila (Sumerian Lú-Enlilá) was a Ur III official responsible for barley at Nippur under King Shu-Suen, known from a barley account and three loan contracts.
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, also called the Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, is an Akkadian poem in which the official Šubši-mešrê-Šakkan recounts his disgrace, illness, and recovery through the god Marduk's mercy.
Lugal
Lugal, literally 'big man', is the Sumerian royal title conventionally translated 'king', borne by independent Early Dynastic city-state rulers and later by kings of Akkad and Ur III.
Lugal-annemundu
Lugal-annemundu, also written Lugal-ane-mundu, is a legendary king of Adab in the Sumerian King List, which gives him a 90-year reign about 2400 BCE and no contemporary inscriptions.
Lugal-dalu
Lugal-dalu, also written Lugal-da-lu, was a ruler of the Sumerian city of Adab in southern Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, around 2500 BC, known from two votive inscriptions.
Lugal-kinishe-dudu
Lugal-kinishe-dudu, also written Lugalkiginedudu, was an Early Dynastic king of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia around 2425 BC, who united Uruk and Ur and made a brotherhood pact with Entemena of Lagash.
Lugal-kitun
Lugal-kitun is the twelfth and last king of the first dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, which records a 36-year reign before kingship passed to Ur.
Lugal-ushumgal
Lugal-ushumgal (Lugal-ušumgal) was governor (ensi) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash under the Akkadian Empire, appointed by Naram-Sin around 2230 BC and retained under Shar-Kali-Sharri.
Lugalanda
Lugalanda of Lagash was an ensi, or ruler, of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash in the late Early Dynastic period, husband of Queen Baranamtara and immediate predecessor of Urukagina.