Lament For Uruk
The Lament for Uruk, also called the Uruk Lament or the Lament for Unug, is a Sumerian language, Sumerian lament. It is dated to the Isin-Larsa period. History The Lament for Uruk is one of five known City Lament, Mesopotamian "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city's tutelary deity, tutelary goddess, recited by elegists called ''gala''. It was inspired by the Lament for Ur. First written in , the Lament was recopied during the Hellenistic period, when Babylonia had again been overrun by foreigners. Text The Lament is 260 lines long, being composed of 12 ''kirugu'' (sections, songs) and 11 ''gišgigal'' (antiphons). Numbered by ''kirugu'', the lament is structured as follows: #storm of Enlil (storm in Uruk) #storm of Enlil (storm in Uruk) #storm of Enlil (storm in Sumer) #weeping goddess; the poet addresses Sumer #weeping goddess; the poet addresses Uruk #weeping goddess; the poet addresses Uruk (?) #''lost'' #''lost'' #''lost'' #''lost'' #prayer; ...
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Uruk Ziggurat (2)
Uruk, also known as Warka or Warkah, was an ancient city of Sumer (and later of Babylonia) situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates River on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates east of modern Samawah, Muthanna Governorate, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.Harmansah, 2007 Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BC. By the final phase of the Uruk period around 3100 BC, the city may have had 40,000 residents, with 80,000-90,000 people living in its environs, making it the largest urban area in the world at the time. The legendary king Gilgamesh, according to the chronology presented in the Sumerian king list, ''Sumerian King List'' (henceforth ''SKL''), ruled Uruk in the 27th century BC. The city lost its prime importance around 2000 BC in the context of the struggle of Babylonia against Elam, but it remained inhabited throughout the Seleucid (312–63 BC) and Parthian Empire, Parth ...
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