Editing Shulgi (section)

==Year names==
[[File:Terracotta tablet listing the year formulae of king Shulgi. Ur III period. From Iraq. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul.jpg|thumb|One of the terracotta tablets listing the Year names of Shulgi, from year 6 (𒈬𒄊𒂗𒆤𒆠[𒋫...]: "The year the road from [[Nippur]] [was straightened]") to year 21a in this view, the other year names being inscribed on the back. A fragment is missing in this tablet (at the top), corresponding to the first five-year names and the last seven-year names of Shulgi.<ref name="Ist Ni 00394">{{cite web |title=Šulgi Year Names (Ist Ni 00394)|url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P265995 |website=cdli.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> This is an [[First Babylonian dynasty|Old Babylonian]] copy (ca. 1900-1600 BC) of an [[Akkadian Empire|Akkadian]] original.<ref name="Ist Ni 00394"/> [[Museum of the Ancient Orient]], Istanbul.]]
There are extensive remains for the year names of Shulgi, which have been largely reconstructed from year 1 to year 48 though some are fragmentary. There are no contemporary lists of year names, only partial texts from the Old Babylonian period so the order is not completely certain and a few years attribution is uncertain between Ur-Nammu and Shulgi. There are also multiple year names for some years which is not unprecedented.<ref name="Frayne1997" >Frayne, Douglas, "Šulgi", Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 91-234, 1997</ref> For example year 20 is "Year: “Ninḫursaga of Nutur was brought into her temple”" and "Year: “The sons of Ur were conscripted as lancers”".<ref name="Sigrist2010" /> Some of the most important are:

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1. Year : Šulgi is king<br>
2. Year: The foundations of the temple of Ningubalag were laid<br>
6. Year: The king straightened out the Nippur road<br>
7. Year: The king made a round trip between Ur and Nippur (in one day)<br>
10. Year: The royal [[Ekur|mountain-house]] (the palace) was built<br>
18. Year: Liwirmittašu, the daughter of the king, was elevated to the queenship of [[Marhashi]]<br>
21c. Year: [[Der (Sumer)|Der]] was destroyed<br>
24. Year: Karahar was destroyed<br>
25. Year: [[Simurrum]] was destroyed<br>
27. Year after: "Šulgi the strong man, the king of the four corners of the universe, destroyed Simurrum for the second time"<br>
27b. Year: "Harszi was destroyed"<br>
30. Year: The governor of [[Anšan]] took the king's daughter into marriage<br>
31. Year: Karhar was destroyed for the second time<br>
32. Year: Simurrum was destroyed for the third time<br>
34. Year: Anshan was destroyed<br>
37. Year: The wall of the land was built<br>
42. Year: The king destroyed [[Tell Shemshara#Šašrum|Šašrum]]<br>
44. Year: Simurrum and [[Lullubum]] were destroyed for the ninth time<br>
45. Year: Šulgi, the strong man, the king of Ur, the king of the four-quarters, smashed the heads of Urbilum, Simurrum, Lullubum and Karhar in a single campaign<br>
46. Year: Šulgi, the strong man, the king of Ur, the king of the four-quarters, destroyed Kimaš, Hurti and their territories in a single day
|Main year names of Shulgi<ref name="Sigrist2010" >Sigrist, M., "Les noms d’anée du règne du roi Šulgi", in Why Should Someone Who Knows Something Conceal It? Cuneiform Studies in Honor of David I. Owen on His 70th Birthday, ed. A. Kleinerman and J. M. Sasson. Bethesda: CDL, pp. 219–38, 2010</ref><ref>[https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/articles/cdlj/2013-1]Richard Firth, "Notes on Year Names of the Early Ur III Period: Šulgi 20-30", Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2013 (1), 2013</ref><ref>Goetze, Albrecht, "The Chronology of Šulgi Again", Iraq, vol. 22, pp. 151–56, 1960</ref>
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Year name 39 of Shulgi was "The year Šulgi, king of Ur, king of the four quarters, built é-Puzriš-Dagan, a residence {palace? temple?} of Šulgi".<ref name="Sharlach2016">[https://www.academia.edu/download/64051107/28-Scharlach-RAI-60_Warsaw.pdf]Sharlach, Tonia, "Šulgi, Mighty Man, King of Ur", Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East, pp. 211-20, 2016</ref>