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| Keywords: Clay cone Urukagina Louvre AO4598ab.jpg Fragment of an inscripted clay cone of Urukagina or Uruinimgina lugal prince of Lagash The inscription reads He Uruinimgina dug ¦ the canal to the town-of-NINA At its beginning he built the Eninnu- E-ninnu or Temple-Ninnu ; at its ending he built the Esiraran Fragment d'un cĂ´ne historique inscrit d'Urukagina ou Uruinimgina prince de Lagash « Il Urukagina creusa ¦ le canal Ă la ville-de-NINA Ă son point de dĂ©part il bâtit l'Eninnu ; Ă son point d'arrivĂ©e il bâtit l'Esiraran » ca 2350 BC terracotta Institution Louvre room ID 101 object department near eastern antiquities Louvre online object history credit line ProvenanceEvent excavation Gaston Cros 1905 Girsu accession number Louvre number 4598 a Louvre number 4598 b Marie-Lan Nguyen 2007 other versions Sumerian inscriptions Urukagina Girsu Cuneiform on clay nails or cones 24th-century BC works Near Eastern Antiquities in the Louvre - Room 1a ImageNote 1 587 310 29 47 2600 2160 2 Clay cone of a Sumerian king showing the cuniform writing and alphabet that had evolved from earlier pictographs ImageNoteEnd 1 | ||||
