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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Ur
		Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, originally located near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu.
		Ur was inhabited in the earliest stage of village settlement in southern Mesopotamia, the Ubaid period.
		Biblical Ur Ur is mentioned four times in the Tanakh or Old Testament, as with the distinction "of the Kasdim/Kasdin", which is traditionally rendered in English "Ur of the Chaldees", referring to the Chaldeans, who settled there around 900 BC.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Ur (1523 words)

	Sumeria, The City Of Ur
		Ur was the principal center of worship of the Sumerian moon god Nanna and of his Babylonian equivalent Sin.
		Ur was one of the first village settlements founded (circa 4000 BC) by the so-called Ubaidian inhabitants of Sumer.
		The findings left little doubt that the deaths of the king and queen of Ur were followed by the voluntary death of their courtiers and personal attendants and of the court soldiers and musicians.
	history-world.org /ur.htm (905 words)

	Uruk - Ur - The Great Ziggurat - Crystalinks
		Ur is considered by many to be the city of Ur Kasdim mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the birthplace of Abraham.
		Ur is mentioned four times in the Tanakh or Old Testament, with the distinction "of the Kasdim/Kasdin" - traditionally rendered in English as "Ur of the Chaldees", referring to the Chaldeans, who were already settled there by around 900 BC.
		Ur is said to be the birthplace of the patriarch Abram (Abraham).
	www.crystalinks.com /uruk.html (2628 words)

	Lament for Ur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lament for Ur is a Sumerian lament composed after the fall of Ur to the Elamites and the end of the city's third dynasty (c.
		Interspersed with the goddess's wailing are other sections, possibly of different origin and composition; these describe the ghost town that Ur has become, recount the wrath of Enlil's storm, and invoke the protection of the god Nanna against future calamities.
		The Biblical Book of Lamentations, which bewails the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, is similar in theme and style to these Mesopotamian laments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lament_for_Ur (250 words)

	UR - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		UR, Ur, or ur can refer to several things: Informal Internet Slang contraction of ''your'', ''yours'', or ''you're'', also used in Short message service text messages The City of Ur Ur (continent), the first known continent Royal Game of Ur *Ur is the name of a minor Gnostic deity.
		Ur became such a center, and by around 2600 BC, in the Sumerian Sumerian king list, the city was again thriving.
		7, Ur is described as the birthplace of Abraham, the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well as the centre of political power.'' This is ''not'' in fact how Ur is described in the ''Genesis'' quotes, which are alluded to but not actually exhibited.
	wordsonline.org /Ur (2747 words)

	lamentations
		Significantly, She is shown singing two laments, one before the city had been destroyed, in an attempt to avert the imminent destruction; and then afterwards, when the city had been ravaged, bemoaning the loss of the city and Her home.
		It is the goddess who laments when the goddess is the major deity of the city, like Baba and Ninisinna and Nanshe, and it is also the goddess who weeps when She is merely the minor spouse of the city god (as in Namrat, wife of Numushda in Kazallu).
		All of them should be considered successful intercessions, for the lamentations themselves were recited at the time of restoration of the city and shrine and the return of the gods to their homes, and the compositions often contain mention of the restoration celebrations.
	www.gatewaystobabylon.com /myths/texts/lamentations/onlamentations.html (938 words)

	Ur, Iraq
		The ziggurat is a temple of Nanna, a deity in Sumerian mythology, and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined together with bitumen, in the upper stage they are joined with mortar.
		The Book of Jubilees states that Ur was founded in 1687 Anno Mundi (year of the world) by 'Ur son of Kesed, presumably offspring of Arphaxad, adding that in this same year, wars began on Earth.
		Clay cylinders found in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat bore an inscription of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon (539 BC), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur (Bel-sarra-Uzur), the Belshazzar of the book of Daniel.
	www.creekin.net /c4473-n88-ur-iraq.html (1857 words)

	Ur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eventually, the kings of Ur became the effective rulers of Sumer, in the first dynasty of Ur established by the king Mesannepada (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda), who is on the kinglist and is named as a son of Meskalamdug on one artifact.
		Ur is considered by many to be the city of Ur Kasdim mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the birthplace of the patriarch Abram (Abraham).
		Ur is mentioned four times in the Tanakh or Old Testament, with the distinction "of the Kasdim/Kasdin" — traditionally rendered in English as "Ur of the Chaldees", referring to the Chaldeans, who were already settled there by around 900 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Ur (1975 words)

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		Balags and ersemmas seem to be mostly imitative in nature, retaining both the form and content of the classic city laments, but lacking their vibrancy and elegance.
		As for Lamentations, the most straightforward embodiment of the genre in the Hebrew Bible, it does not stimulate the production of other city laments--at least not in the biblical period,(FN28) and thus cannot be said to inaugurate actively a phase of primary productivity in Israel and Judah.
		42 The Greek laments for destroyed cities exhibit similar kinds of adaptations; the potential attestations of the genre in Ugaritic (e.g., KTU 1.15.1.1-8) are too meager to reflect adaptive strategies.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /royerd/courses/495/city_lament.htm (2560 words)

	Lament
		A lament or dirge is a song or poem expressing grief or regret.
		Laments are present in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, in the Hindu Vedas, and in ancient Near Eastern religious texts, including the Mesopotamian city laments such as the Lament for Ur and the Jewish Tanakh (or Old Testament).
		In the traditional music of Scotland, a lament is also a genre of musical composition for the bagpipes.
	www.clipart.teleactivities.com /poetry/lament.html (166 words)

	The Lament for Urim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Your lament is bitter, O city, the lament made for you.
		The woman, after she had composed her song (?) for the tearful balaj instrument, herself utters softly a lamentation for the smitten (?) house: "The storm that came to be -- its lamentation hangs heavy on me. Raging about because of the storm, I am the woman for whom the storm came to be.
		Indeed they established weeping and lamentation for me. As for the house which used to be where the spirit of the fl-headed people was soothed, instead of its festivals wrath and terror indeed multiply.
	www.earth-history.com /Sumer/sumer-lament-urim.htm (4595 words)

	CHAPTER VIII
		Lament is found at the core of rituals for both individual and communal mourning, and has been danced, accompanied by music, wailed, recited as poetry or spoken as dirges.
		Ritual lament was gradually transferred from the clan cults to the state cult and the political nature of orations at funerals was confirmed because they were delivered by a representative of the state.
		Those lamenting claimed the power to wring the hand of God and to disrupt accepted power relations between the people and God by claiming that their petitions were to be taken so seriously that, in doing so, God is put at risk.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series02/II-6/chapter_viii.htm (9360 words)

	lament - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about lament
		A lament may be found in the form of an elegy or a dirge.
		Often laments are poems, and are frequently set to music.
		As an example of motiveless degradation of character, we have Menelaus in the Orestes: of character indecorous and inappropriate, the lament of Odysseus in the Scylla, and the speech of Melanippe: of inconsistency, the Iphigenia at Aulis,--for Iphigenia the suppliant in no way resembles her later self.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /lament (196 words)

	A Lament for Zion 4Q179
		The lamentation for a fallen city was a well-known literary genre in the ancient Near East.
		One of the oldest known is the "Lamentation for the Destruction of Ur," written in Mesopotamia in the twentieth century B.C.E., and several others are known.
		The biblical exemplar of the form is the book of Lamentations, comprising five laments over the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in the sixth century B.C.E. The scroll 4Q179 is clearly modeled after the biblical Lamentations and quotes from it occasionally.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/drumandbass/315/dsea/008.htm (501 words)

	Ur - Chapter XVI, by D E Austin
		The High Priestess of Ur, upon discovering that the High Priest Shubari did not, in fact, possess the ability to fly like a bird from the temple's first terrace, does not wish to test her own ability to do so, and has informed me that she would be most pleased to abdicate her throne.
		Upon her installation as High Priestess of Ur, Setiluth intends to ask some of you about these numbers, particularly those of you who are heads of temple households.
		When Enlil and the Assembly of the gods met the next morning to decide Ur's fate, Nanna lay drunk in the arms of a prostitute, the tablets on which his case appeared sold by the prostitute for an ounce of the pleasant drug.
	www.author-me.com /fict04/ur16.htm (7541 words)

	Assurance - Credenda/Agenda
		Ur was the capital of Sumer and one of the earliest great powers recognized by pagan historians.
		The author then entreats the god Enlil to preserve Ur, but Enlil responds with "It is good, so be it." According to the Lament, the capitol of Sumer was abandoned by her gods because her fickle deities just didn't feel like protecting her anymore.
		It is likely that when Terah led his family away from Ur, as described in Gen. 11:27-32, this pilgrimage was prompted by the destruction chronicled in the Lament of Ur.
	www.credenda.org /issues/17-2recipio.php?type=print (714 words)

	Bella Roma Music
		Nanna was god of the moon and city god of Ur, where he dwelt in a temple high on top of a stage tower or ziggurat.
		A famous "Lament for Ur" was written at the end of the Third Dynasty of Ur, when the aged king and all the citizens were killed or carried off after a long seige by invadors from the highlands, Elam and the Sua people.
		"The lament is that of a balag or "harp lament" which consisted of two parts, a "lament" (er) and a "tambourine-lament" (ershemma).
	www.bellaromamusic.com /stories/hurrianmoonset/moonsetpage.html (1062 words)

	Lament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A lament or lamentation is a song or poem expressing grief, regret or mourning.
		These pieces are usually named after a person; traditionally, the person for whom they were composed was a warrior slain in battle.
		The traditional lament played at Commonwealth services of remembrance is a solo bagpipe version of Flowers of the Forest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lament (266 words)

	The Art of the Elamites - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		Two Sumerian lamentations on clay tablets reflect the memory of this event: the lament over the destruction of Ur and the lament over the fate of Ibbisin, the last king of Ur, who was led away into captivity.
		Not only the king of Ur, whose dynasty had ruled over all of Mesopotamia and Elam, but also the patron goddess of Ur, Ningal, seem to have been led away into captivity.
		The successors of the Third Dynasty of Ur as rulers of Mesopotamia, the kings of Isin and of Larsa, continued a policy, developed earlier in relations with Elam, of 'military pressures and diplomatic marriages'.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/art/porada/poradaelam.htm (10791 words)

	Lamentations; the word speaks for itself
		As each verse of Lamentations was announced, the grieving resounded in the dusk.
		Thus the lamentation, rightly taken, falls from the stricken lips of the victimized, the invaded and sanctioned and bombed peoples who fall (too bad for them!) afoul of the American hegemony.
		Confession of sin, questioning of our behavior, submitting to chastisement - these are emotions foreign to the national soul, a lost language of Ur In the lament, undoubtedly we read of less than admirable reactions of malice and the seeking of vengeance.
	www.tiac.net /~rjf/lamentations-berrigan-apr02.html (3833 words)

	The Lament for Nibru
		Their city gone, their homes abandoned -- as those who were singing for the brick buildings of the good city, as the lamenters of wailing, like the foster-children of an ecstatic no longer knowing their own intelligence, the people were smitten, their minds thrown into disorder.
		As though its purification priest's equipment were not utterly sacred, as though its cleansing-rites did not bring calm in all countries, he has abandoned it, turned his breast away from it, among dejection and lamentation he has made it a sacrilege.
		When he had begun the lament and spoken the supplication, the prince of all countries treated his body with oil of abundance as if it were the sweetest syrup!
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /sitchin/lament_nibru.htm (2846 words)

	Lamentation of Ur - www.GatewaysToBabylon.com
		LAMENTATION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF UR Source: Thorkild Jacobsen, The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
		There are several lament texts that have been found, each mourning the destruction of a different Sumerian city.
		These texts are all from the same time period, causing one to wonder if the laments are simply reflections of humans at war, or truly those of wars of the Gods themselves - quarreling over their own ideologies.
	www.gatewaystobabylon.com /myths/texts/lamentations/lamentur.html (901 words)

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		Ur means ‘city’ in ancient Iraq’s Sumerian and Akkadian languages.
		The Bible says Ur of the Chaldees was the birthplace of Abraham but many scholars did not believe it existed until Woolley’s discoveries.
		The heart of the wasted city is weeping, reeds (for flutes) of lament grow therein, its heart is weeping, reeds (for flutes) of lament grow therein, its people spend the day in weeping.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/apr17.html (2826 words)

	The Lyre of Ur, Carl McTague
		The excavation, dominated by a massive ziggurat dedicated to the Sumerian moon god Nanna, attracted attention from the popular press because it was believed to be the birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham, and because its
		Ur by Eva Strommenger, Photographs by Max Hirmer, 1964.
		Excavations at Ur by Sir Leonard Wooley, 1965.
	www.mctague.org /carl/music/computer/pieces/lyre (838 words)

	The Origin of Sin and the Queen of Heaven: Part 1 The Moon God and Goddess
		Nanna was worshipped in the ziggurat of Ur.
		Although it is suggested that these Kings and Queens may have been sacrificed priests in fertility rites, the magnificence and extensive nature of the tombs suggest they reflect a royal suttee rite, in which the whole court departed with their deified king to accompany him on his astral journey.
		A garlanded fl bull was however sacrificed in public ceremony, as the bull was at Ur, and Moslem sources refer to seasonal weeping for Ta'uz at Harran, and up to the 10th century among bedouin in the desert.
	www.dhushara.com /book/orsin/origsin.htm (6711 words)

	The death of Ur-Namma (Ur-Namma A): translation
		Because of the fate decreed for Ur-Namma, because it made the trustworthy shepherd pass away, she was weeping bitterly in the broad square, which is otherwise a place of entertainment.
		As the early flood was filling the canals, their canal-inspector was already silenced (?); the mottled barley grown on the arable lands, the life of the land, was inundated.
		She was weeping bitterly in the broad square, which is otherwise a place of entertainment, that the fate of Ur-Namma had been overturned and that the trustworthy shepherd had been made to pass away.
	www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk /section2/tr2411.htm (2841 words)

	LAMENT FOR UR
		yet Ur would have perished where it lay.
		"May Ur not be destroyed!" I said indeed to them.
		Ur was verily granted a kingship -- a lasting term it was not granted.
	history-world.org /lament_for_ur.htm (832 words)

	The Lament of Eridug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Because of this, Enki, king of the abzu, stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city.
		She tore out her hair like rushes, uttering a bitter lament: "You, my city whose woman does not dwell there, whose charms do not satisfy her -- where is a lament uttered bitterly for you?
		A version from Ur House of princely powers, standing in mighty water -- the waters have receded from it.......
	www.earth-history.com /Sumer/sumer-lament-eridug.htm (1216 words)

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