The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

Public buildings, palaces and temples

Abb. 221 Ziqqurrat in Ur und ihre Umgebung. Plan. M. 1:2000. — Nach Woolley, UE 7(1976) Taf. 117 (frei benutzt)

Figure 9.5 The ziggurat at Ur and its surroundings (after Heinrich 1982a: abb. 221)

public-political activities, equipped with public buildings of which some, such as the
ziggurat of Ur, reached previously unknown dimensions.

Ur - texts and the identifying of public buildings and their builders

Unlike the conditions in Uruk and Khafajah the finds from Ur make it relatively easily
to name the relevant public buildings’ and to identify the relevant local king as the
builder in charge. In Ur at the time, the local elite considered it necessary and desirable

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