The Ziggurat at Ur is a largely reconstructed example from a later period. The name of the current ruler was often stamped on each brick of these huge raised platform temples known as ziggurats. ![]() The late third millennium is the era in which massive temple structures, so typical of ancient Near Eastern architecture, were first created. He is accompanied by an architect and is also shown praying to Nanna who is represented as a huge crescent moon at the top of the stele. The king is shown multiple times carrying mud bricks. They likely depict King Ur Nammu building and consecrating the major temple complex at Ur dedicated to Nanna, the moon god and divine patron of the city. This limestone stele, found in a very fragmentary state at Ur, has five narrative layers (registers) on both sides. Perhaps because of the changing fortunes of the area, monuments erected by rulers begin to include multiple registers and tell long and complicated stories, almost like three-dimensional comic books. King Ur-Nammu established the third dynasty of Ur, also referred to as the Ur III period. The Gutians were ousted in turn and the city of Ur, south of Uruk, became dominant. 2334-2279 BCE), founder of the Akkadian Empire. The kingdom of Akkad ends with internal strife and invasion by the the Gutians from the Zagros mountains to the northeast. Sargon and Ur -Zababa is a Sumerian poem, date of composition unknown, relating the rise to power of Sargon of Akkad (r. 2112-2094 BCE, limestone, 3 × 1.5 m (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
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