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HISTORICAL OUTLINE 13
5. Gudea. The literary remains of this patesi form the principal
source for the study of the language.
a) Historical'; eleven inscribed statues and two large hollow
cylinders of baked clay, 30 and 24 nearIy perfect columns averaging 20
cases or lines to the column. Eight inscribed baked clay bricks Three
baked clay pegs. Three coats of arms. An inscribed bowl and lion.
Three seals. Two female statues dedicated to female divinities by his
consort for his life·.
b) Commercial documents dated in his reign, RTC. 192-199, 200,
201 (?). PINCHES, Amh., no. 13. LAU, Old Bab. Temple Records,
Catalogue, p. 53, no. 59.
§ 15. Dynasty of Ur and contemporary patesis of Lagas. Ur.
1. Ur-Engur. - a) Seven inscribed bricks (from Ur, Erech, Larsa
and Nippur). Two baked clay pegs (Ur and Lagash). Two door-sockets
(Nippur). A stone tablet from Kes (?). A seal dedicated to him. ­
b) Tablets dated in his reign, RTe. 261-5.
Ur-abba, patesi of Lagash. A seal dedicated to him'.
2. Dungi'. - a) Three inscribed bricks (U r and Susa). One clay
peg and one door-socket (Lagash). Clay tablet,copy from a stone tablet
(Kutha). Nine stone tablets (Kutha, Lagash, Nippur, Susa, Erech,
Eridu), records of building temples, two (Kutha, Erech (?)) dedications
on stone tablets for thc life of Dungi. Dedicated for his life a female
statue, a dead-dress oí diorite, a pearl, and two seals (Lagash, Kutha (?),
Nippur ?). Six seals oí individuals dedicated to Dungi 5. Three in­
scribed weights.
1. None 01 the inscriptions 01 Gudea can be called historical in a strict use of
the termo The statues all refer to the building of temples and the dedication of
the statue in question, and the cylinders offer only an elaborate account of the
building of the chief temple. The sta tu es are denoted by Gud. A. B. C. D. E. F.
G. H. 1. K. L. and the cylinders by Gud. Cyl. A. B.
2. SAK. 66-147: the femate statue B is repeated by TOSCANNE,Tea;tes di(}ers,
no. D (without reference to previous editions !).
3. See SAK. 228 a) and p. 149. Mentioned on tablets dated under Ur-Engur,
RTC. 261, 263-5.
4. Semiticisms are frequent in his inscriptions.
5. Five in SAK. 196 C-G (Lagash) and one in TOSCANNE,op. cit., no. F.