Lament for Sumer and Ur
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Lament for Sumer and Ur
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The lament for Sumer and Urim or the lament for Sumer and Ur is a poem and one of five known Mesopotamian "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city's tutelary goddess. The other city laments are: The Lament for Ur
The Lament for Nippur
The Lament for Eridu
The Lament for Uruk In 2004 BCE, during the last year of King Ibbi-Sin's reign, Ur fell to an Elamite army leading by king Kindattu of Shimashki. The Sumerians decided that such a catastrophic event could only be explain
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