Ur-Nammu was succeeded by Shulgi, the greatest king of the Third Dynasty of Ur who solidified the hegemony of Ur and reformed the empire into a highly centralized bureaucratic state.

The city was founded by Shulgi, king of Ur.

A copy was found in the House of the Exorcist at Assur, whose contents date from 713-612 BC and is closely related thematically to another vaticinium ex eventu text called the Shulgi prophecy, which probably followed it in a sequence of tablets.

The wall surrounding the temple was built by Shulgi of the Ur III Empire.

It was evidently once a city of considerable importance, but deserted at a very early period, since the ruins found close to the surface of the mounds belong to Shulgi and Ur-Nammu, kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur in the latter part of the third millennium B. C, based on inscribed bricks excavated at Bismaya.

He was succeeded by his son Shulgi, after an eighteen-year reign.

Shulgi was deified during his lifetime, an honor usually reserved for dead kings.

Shulgi ( also formerly read as Dungi ) of Ur was the second king of the " Sumerian Renaissance ".

Shulgi was the son of Ur-Nammu king of Ur – according to one later text ( CM 48 ), by a daughter of the former king Utu-hengal of Uruk – and was a member of the Third dynasty of Ur.

Ultimately, Shulgi was never able to rule any of these distant peoples ; at one point, in his 37th year, he was obliged to build a large wall, in an attempt to keep them out.

The construction of the ziggurat was finished in the 21st century BC by King Shulgi, who, in order to win the allegiance of cities, proclaimed himself a god.

The later Sumerian Renaissance ( Ur-III ) king Shulgi addressed one of his praise poems to Gilgamesh, that credits Gilgamesh with capturing and defeating Enmebaragesi — thus contradicting the king list, where he was already captured by Gilgamesh's predecessor.

Although Habiru ( a Sumerian ideogram glossed as " brigand " in Akkadian ), and sometimes ( an Akkadian word ) had been reported in Mesopotamia from the reign of the Sumerian king, Shulgi of Ur III, their appearance in Canaan appears to have been due to the arrival of a new state based in Asia Minor to the north of Assyria based upon Maryannu aristocracy of horse drawn charioteers, associated with the Indo-Aryan rulers of the Hurrians, known as Mitanni.

Both the readings " Shulgi " and " Dungi " were known before the turn of the 20th century, but over the course of that century, the scholarly consensus gravitated away from " Dungi " and toward " Shulgi " as being the correct pronunciation.

Shulgi is best known for his extensive revision of the scribal school's curriculum.

Shulgi ruled for a long time ( at least 42 years ) and deified himself halfway through his rule.

Some early chronicles castigate Shulgi for his impiety: the Weidner Chronicle ( ABC 19 ) states that " he did not perform his rites to the letter, he defiled his purification rituals ".

The Sumerian king Shulgi also boasts of his prowess in sport in Self-praise of Shulgi A, B and C. Fishing hooks not unlike those made today have been found during excavations at Ur, showing evidence of angling in Sumer at around 2600 BC.

Following this, Shulgi engaged in a period of expansionism at the expense of highlanders such as the Lullubi, and others.

* Year Names of Shulgi at CDLI ( note years 30, 34, 35 and 36 )

Shulgi ( formerly read as Dungi ), King of Ur III, built the temple of Nergal at Cuthah, which fell into ruins, so that Nebuchadnezzar II had to rebuild the " temple of the gods, and placed them in safety in the temple ".

* 2138 BC: Babylon: A solar eclipse on 9 May and a lunar eclipse on 24 May occurred and are believed to be the double eclipse that took place 23 years after the ascension of king Shulgi of Babylon by those holding to the long chronology.

Shulgi also boasted about his ability to maintain high speeds while running long distances.

The splendour of the city, the might of the empire, the greatness of king Shulgi, and undoubtedly the efficient propaganda of the state endured throughout Mesopotamian history.

He and his successor Shulgi were both deified during their reigns, and after his death he continued as a hero-figure: one of the surviving works of Sumerian literature describes the death of Ur-Nammu and his journey to the underworld.

About a century later, the Sumerian king, Shulgi of Ur retook the city of Susa and the surrounding region.

The Umma calendar of Shulgi ( ca.

The calendar is based on a Sumerian ( Ur III ) predecessor preserved in the Umma calendar of Shulgi ( c. 21st century BC ).

Although the prologue credits Ur-Nammu, the author is still somewhat under dispute ; some scholars attribute it to his son, Shulgi.

He was well rid of her.

The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.

Leading his pony, he hurried that way, not remounting till he was well below the level of the surrounding range.

I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.

I must say the figure was well made up.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

Karipo was something of a politician as well as a militarist.

The Command post was underground, and well camouflaged.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.

Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.