Lament for Ur
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The Lament for Ur, or Lamentation over the city of Ur is a Sumerian lament composed around the time of the fall of Ur to the Elamites and the end of the city's third dynasty.
Lament for Ur at the Louvre Museum
Reconstructed ruins of the city of Ur
U.S. soldiers on the Ziggurat of Ur
Eridu
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Eridu was a Sumerian city located at Tell Abu Shahrain, also Abu Shahrein or Tell Abu Shahrayn, an archaeological site in Lower Mesopotamia. It is located in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, near the modern
Lament for Ur
…The Lament for Nippur The Lament for Eridu The Lament for Uruk…
Ruins of a ziggurat at Eridu
Pre-historic building layers in Eridu. The "Temple Sequence" starts at level XI (Salmon background rows in the table to the left)
Bowl; mid 6th–5th millennium BC; ceramic; 6.99 cm; Tell Abu Shahrain; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bowl; mid 6th–5th millennium BC; ceramic; Tell Abu Shahrain; Metropolitan Museum of Art