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Ur-Lumma
Ur-Lumma (also written Urlumma, Sumerian ur-lum-ma) was a king of the Sumerian city-state of Umma during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, son of King Enakalle.
Ur-Meme
Ur-Meme, also known as Ur-Meme of Nippur, is the 21st-century BC ancestor and name-giver of a Nippur family whose members governed the city in the Ur III period.
Ur-Nammu
Ur-Nammu (Ur-Namma), Sumerian king c. 2112-2094 BCE, founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the Ur III (Sumerian Renaissance) period; earliest extant law code and great builder at Ur, distinct from Shulgi and Hammurabi.
Ur-Nanshe Dilmun inscription
The Ur-Nanshe Dilmun inscription is a Sumerian building inscription of Ur-Nanshe, first king of Lagash, recording boats of Dilmun bringing timber, found at Girsu (modern Tello), Iraq.
Ur-nigin
Ur-nigin, also written Ur-nigina, was a king of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia, the first ruler of its short Fourth Dynasty, around the late 23rd century BC.
Ur-Ningirsu
Ur-Ningirsu, sometimes called Ur-Ningirsu II, was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2110–2080 BC, the son and successor of the well-known ruler Gudea.
Ur-Ninurta
Ur-Ninurta of Isin was the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia, reigning from 1925 to 1898 BC and succeeded by his son Bur-Sin.
Ur-Nungal
Ur-Nungal, variant Ur-lugal, is a legendary king of the First Dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, named as the son of Gilgamesh and given a 30-year reign.
Ur-Pabilsag
Ur-Pabilsag was an Early Dynastic ruler of the Sumerian city of Ur around 2600–2450 BC, known from a single inscribed vase fragment found in the Royal Cemetery of Ur.
Ur-Utu
Ur-Utu, born Bēlānum, was chief lamentation priest of the goddess Annunītum at Sippar-Amnānum in the Old Babylonian period; his excavated house at Tell ed-Dēr yielded the largest private Old Babylonian archive, about 2,000 tablets.
Ur-Zababa
Ur-Zababa of Kish was a Sumerian king known from the Sumerian King List and the poem Sargon and Ur-Zababa, which tells how his cupbearer Sargon overthrew him.
Urad-Gula
Urad-Gula (Urād-Gula) was an exorcist at the Neo-Assyrian royal court under Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal, son of the chief exorcist Adad-šumu-uṣur, and was later expelled from court service.
Urad-Nanaya
Urad-Nanaya (Urdu-Nanāia, Arad-Nanā) was a scholar-healer and chief physician at the Neo-Assyrian court under King Esarhaddon in the 7th century BC, known from fourteen letters found at Nineveh.
Uraeus
Uraeus (Egyptian iaret): the rearing cobra symbol of protection and royal power in ancient Egypt, embodying the goddess Wadjet of Lower Egypt, worn on pharaohs' foreheads and set on shrine friezes.
Urartian language
Urartian, also called Vannic or Chaldean, is the extinct language of the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu around Lake Van, known from more than 500 royal cuneiform inscriptions.
Urartian religion
Urartian religion was the state religion of the kingdom of Urartu, headed by the war god Haldi, from the 9th century BC until about 590 BC.
Urartians
The Urartians were the people of the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu, called Biainili in their own records, which flourished in the ninth and eighth centuries BC.
Uratami (king of Hamath)
Uratami, also rendered Rudamu or Uratamis, was a Luwian king of Hamath in western Syria around 840 BCE, the son and successor of Urhilina and the last known Luwian ruler of the city.
Urdukuga
Urdukuga of Isin was the thirteenth king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia, reigning four years around 1831–1828 BC between Iter-piša and Sîn-māgir.
Uriah (high priest)
Uriah (also spelled Urijah) was the high priest of the Jerusalem temple during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah, best known for building a new altar on the model of one Ahaz saw in Damascus.
Urra=hubullu
Urra=hubullu, also known as Harra=hubullu, is an ancient Mesopotamian lexical series pairing Sumerian words with their Akkadian equivalents, first compiled around 1900–1600 BC and copied for over a millennium.
Urtak
Urtak, also called Urtaku, was king of Elam from about 675 to 664 BC, first allied with Assyria, then at war with Ashurbanipal, dying after invading Babylonia in 664 BC.
Urtenu
Urtēnu was a high-ranking official and merchant of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, active under its last two kings in the 13th and 12th centuries BC.
Urtenu archive
The Urtenu archive is a corpus of about 650 cuneiform tablets excavated since the 1980s at Ras Shamra, ancient Ugarit in Syria, dating to roughly 1225–1185 BC and including royal correspondence.
Uruk King List
The Uruk King List, also known as King List 5, is a Late Babylonian tablet from Uruk, Iraq, recording the reign lengths of kings from Kandalanu to Seleucus II Callinicus.
Uruk period
Uruk period: late 4th-millennium BCE Mesopotamian era named for Uruk (Warka), when the first cities, monumental architecture, cylinder seals, and proto-cuneiform writing emerged, with the Uruk expansion across the Near East.
Uruk Trough
The Uruk Trough is a carved limestone trough from Uruk in southern Mesopotamia, dated about 3300–3000 BC and now in the British Museum, with reliefs of sheep before a reed hut symbolizing the goddess Inanna.
Urukagina
Urukagina, also read Uruinimgina or Irikagina, was the last ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, reigning ten years in the 24th century BC and remembered for his Reform Texts.
Urumeans
The Urumeans were a people of the Upper Euphrates region, first recorded under Tiglath-pileser I of Assyria, whose country Urumu, called Urmie in Urartian sources, lay near modern Mush.
Urzana
Urzana was the ruler, and in some documents king, of Musasir, a small kingdom between Assyria and Urartu, ended by Sargon II's conquest in 714 BC.