Third Dynasty of Ur: Difference between revisions

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The '''third dynasty of [[Ur]]''' was also known as the ('''[[Sumerian]] Renaissance'''), coming after several centuries of [[Akkadian]] and [[Gutian]] kings. It controlled the cities of [[Isin]], [[Larsa]] and [[Eshnunna]].

Though documents again began to be written in Sumerian, the dynasty may actually have been Semitic; Sumerian was already becoming a dead language, much as Latin later would be in Medieval Europe. The power of these kings extended to the Mediterranean, and there have been found a large number of inscriptions of their reigns in the form of contracts and similar business documents, as well as chronological tables.

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[[Ur-Nammu]] (originally a general) founded the dynasty. He had supplanted the king of [[Uruk]], [[Utu-khegal]], who himself had unseated the [[Gutian]] king [[Tirigan]]. [[Shulgi]] ([[2047 BC]] [[short chronology]]) received the throne of Ur from Ur-Nammu, and the succession of kings is documented down to [[Ibbi-Sin]].

After the fall of the Ur III dynasty owing to an [[Elam]]ite invasion in 2004 BC, Babylonia passed under foreign ([[Amorite]]) influence.

''See also'' [[Sumerian king list]].