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 (c. 2000 BC).
The LamentforUr, 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...
The lamentfor Sumer and Urim or the lamentfor Sumer and Ur is a poem and one of five known Mesopotamian "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the...
have been laments. The Lamentfor Sumer and Ur dates back at least 4000 years to ancient Sumer, the world's first urban civilization. Laments are present...
A genre called City Laments developed during the Isin-Larsa period, of which the LamentforUr is the most famous. These laments had a number of sections...
foreign cites, lamenting their devastated shrine. Subsequently, they return from exile and renew their former existence. The LamentforUr, or Lamentation...
of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to a 22nd to 21st century BC (middle chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and...
standard emegir dialect of Sumerian. The Lamentfor Sumer and Ur The LamentforUr The Lamentfor Eridu The Lamentfor Nippur Mattila, Raija; Ito, Sanae; Fink...
later expelled from Mesopotamia. The destructions are related in the LamentforUr: "The good house of the lofty untouchable mountain, E-kiš-nu-g̃al, was...
Babylon - Hammurabi, Samsu-iluna, Abi-Eshuh City Laments such as LamentforUr and Lamentfor Sumer and Ur King lists and other historical compositions such...
in city laments; emesal is also found in the LamentforUr. The Lamentfor Sumer and Ur The LamentforUr The Lamentfor Eridu The Lamentfor Uruk "Lamentation...
from where Enlil is banished. The fall of Ekur is described in the LamentforUr. In mythology, the Ekur was the centre of the earth and location where...
would say that no subject was proper for an historical picture, but such as admitted at least forty figures; for in a less number, he would assert, there...
puhru. One of the first records of a divine council appears in the LamentforUr, where the pantheon of Annunaki is led by An with Ninhursag and Enlil...
BC: Egyptian Coffin Texts and Teaching for King Merykara 2000 BC: Sumerian LamentforUr, Lamentfor Sumer and Ur, Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, and...
to have been commissioned for their new home, and to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea. The Italian name for the painting, La Gioconda,...
whether this should be attempted. Extant collections include: The Code of Ur-Nammu of Ur. The Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin. The Laws of Eshnunna (written by...
found in a quadrangular niche. If this findspot were the original context for the Venus, the niche and the gymnasiarch's inscription suggests that the...
State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2121-6. Eridu Genesis Inanna Lamentfor Sumer and Ur Sumerian literature Sjöberg 1994, p. 171. Kramer 1988, p. 11. Kramer...
Beauharnais (1763–1814), is kneeling in a submissive position, as called for in the French Civil Code. She received the crown from the hands of her husband...
present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal...
Hymns: Aratta is "respected" The Kesh Temple Hymn: Aratta is"important" LamentforUr: Aratta is "weighty (counsel)" Early 20th century scholars initially...
on a modern subject—a barricade. And if I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her." The painting was first exhibited at the official Salon...
Full size copies were produced for Philip IV of Spain in bronze, ordered by Velázquez and now in the Prado Museum, and for Versailles (by the sculptor Martin...
achieved popular acceptance. The identification as a "barbarian" was evidenced for the figure's neck torc, thick hair and moustache, weapons and shield carved...
but also described as the tool of its destruction in city-lament hymns such as the LamentforUr, where it is torn apart with a storm and then pickaxes....
discern. Delacroix used a painterly brushstroke in this painting, which allows for a strong sense of movement in the work. This scene is chaotic and violent...
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