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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Two fragments that fit together to make a clay tablet with a Cuneiform inscription. Both have remains of a bitamin and weaved reed floor. This is a horizontal brick from the temple-ziggurat at Ur, later restored by King Nabonidus. The stamp reads: "Ur-Nammu, King of Ur, the one who built the temple of Nanna" Ur-Nammu, the first king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, reigned from about 2112 to 2095 BC. Nanna was the moon god.
Site Name: Ur, Iraq
Notes: found at Ur of the Chaldees, Mesopatamia by Prof Hall, British Museum