Foundation cone of Ur-Bau
Place made:Lagash
Culture: Neo-Sumerian
Period: Lagash II
Date: ca. 2135-2131 B.C.
Medium: Clay
Dimensions:
4 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (12 × 7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Emma Reed
Object number: 38.237.14
Inscribed: Inscribed in Sumerian:
For Ningirsu,
mighty warrior
of Enlil,
Ur-Bau,
ruler
of Lagash,
child born
of Nin-agala,
made things function as they should,
(and) his (temple) E-ninnu, the White Thunderbird,
he built for him
(and) restored.
[Trans. after García Recio 2021]
Provenance: Emma Reed (1874-1953), San Antonio, by gift to the Witte Museum, San Antonio, 1938; transferred to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994
Published References
J. García Recio, ed., Textos Cuneiformes de Texas. San Antonio Museum of Art (León and Estella, Spain: Instituto Bíblico y Oriental and Verbo Divino, 2021), 32-33, no. 1.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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