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==Artifacts and inscriptions== <gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4"> File:Lugal Urimkima Lugal Kiengi Kiuri, King of Ur, King of Sumer and Akkad, on a seal of Shulgi (transcription).jpg|''Lugal Urimkima/ Lugal Kiengi Kiuri'' {{cuneiform|ππππ π ππ πππ π΅}}, "King of [[Ur]], [[King of Sumer and Akkad]], on a votive tablet of Shulgi. The final ''ke<sub>4</sub>'' {{cuneiform|π€}} is the composite of -k ([[genitive case]]) and -e (ergative case).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Edzard|first1=Dietz Otto|title=Sumerian Grammar|date=2003|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-474-0340-1|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HOx5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|language=en}}</ref> File:Ancient_ziggurat_at_Ali_Air_Base_Iraq_2005.jpg|Shulgi completed the great [[Ziggurat of Ur]] File:Earrings from Shulgi.JPG|Earrings inscribed in the name of Shulgi.<ref>{{cite web|title=CDLI-Archival View|url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P481718|website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref> File:Seal of Shulgi, with Gilgamesh fighting a winged monster.jpg|Seal of Shulgi, with [[Gilgamesh]] fighting a winged monster: "To Shulgi, son of the king, Ur-dumuzi the scribe, his servant".<ref name="The seal cylinders of western Asia">{{cite book|last1=Ward|first1=William Hayes|title=The seal cylinders of western Asia|date=1910|publisher=Washington : Carnegie Inst.|page=[https://archive.org/details/sealcylindersofw00warduoft/page/27 27]|url=https://archive.org/details/sealcylindersofw00warduoft}}</ref> File:Seal of Shulgi, with worshipper and seated deity.jpg|Seal of Shulgi, with worshipper and seated deity: "Shulgi, the mighty hero, King of Ur, king of the four regions, Ur-(Pasag?) the scribe, thy servant".<ref name="The seal cylinders of western Asia"/> File:Mace head inscribed with the name of Shulgi, from Ur, Iraq. British Museum.jpg|Mace head in the name of Shulgi (inscription upside down). British Museum. File:Official weight of 2 mina, reign of Shulgi, from Ur, Iraq. British Museum.jpg|Duck-shaped official weight of 2 mina, reign of Shulgi, from Ur, Iraq. British Museum. File:Meluhha village tablet - BM17751.jpg|A tablet from the period of Shulgi, mentioning the "[[Meluhha]]" village in Sumer. British Museum, BM 17751.<ref name="SP">Simo Parpola, Asko Parpola and Robert H. Brunswig, Jr [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274936748_The_Meluhha_Village_Evidence_of_Acculturation_of_Harappan_Traders_in_Late_Third_Millennium_Mesopotamia "The MeluαΈ«αΈ«a Village: Evidence of Acculturation of Harappan Traders in Late Third Millennium Mesopotamia?"] in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Vol. 20, No. 2, 1977, p. 136-137</ref> "Meluhha" (<small>{{cuneiform|π¨ππ©π }}</small>) actually appears on the beginning of the other side (column II, 1) in the sentence "The granary of the village of Meluhha".<ref>{{cite web|title=Collections Online British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1894-1015-11|website=britishmuseum.org}}</ref><ref name="SP"/> File:Weight AO22187 mp3h9146.jpg|Weight of {{frac||1|2}} mina (actual weight 248 gr.) dedicated by King Shulgi and bearing the emblem of the crescent moon: it was used in the temple of the Moon-God at Ur. Diorite, beginning of the 21st century BC (Ur III). Louvre Museum, Department of Oriental Antiquities, Richelieu, first floor, room 2, case 6 File:Tablet of Shulgi.JPG|Tablet of Shulgi, glorifies the king and his victories on the Lullubi people and mentions the modern-city of Erbil and the modern-district of Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq </gallery>
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