UR: CITY OF THE SUMERIAN RENAISSANCE/UR: 수메르 르네상스의 도시

UR: CITY OF THE SUMERIAN RENAISSANCE

In Today’s post Luke from the Visitor Team looks into the history and economy of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur under its third dynasty, original home to some of the clay cuneiform tablets in the Manchester Museum’s collection.

For more information on our Archaeology collections, have a look at the curator’s blog.

The partially reconstructed remains of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, Dhi Qar Governate, Iraq.

UR – CITY OF THE MOON

The oldest objects on display until very recently in our Money gallery* were a pair of clay cuneiform tablets dating from around 2037 BC. Though humble in appearance, they represent some of the oldest records of trade and financial transactions in the world. These tablets originate from Ur (𒋀𒀕𒆠), a prominent Sumerian city-state in what is now southern Iraq and one of the earliest known cities in the ancient world, being inhabited as a settlement from c.5000 BC, before being established as a true city around 3800 BC.

These tablets date from the city’s heyday when it was ruled by the 3rd Dynasty of Ur (commonly referred to as ‘Ur III’) and was the centre of a large and extremely well organised state, with the city itself even boasting a dedicated financial district subsequently dubbed an ‘ancient Wall Street’ by Professor Marc Van De Mieroop of Columbia University. At its peak it may have been the largest city in the world, with a population of around 65,000.

An artistic reconstruction of the city of Ur during the third dynasty period, featuring the ziggurat (temple) of the moon god Nanna, the E-gish-shir-gal (𒂍𒄑𒋓𒃲) or ‘House of great light’. (source)

UR: 수메르 르네상스의 도시
오늘자 포스트에서 방문자 팀의 루크는 맨체스터 박물관 소장품에 있는 점토로 된 설형문자 판의 원래 고향인 세 번째 왕조 치하의 고대 수메르 도시 우르의 역사와 경제를 조사합니다.

우리의 고고학 컬렉션에 대한 더 많은 정보를 원하시면 큐레이터의 블로그를 참조하십시오.


부분적으로 재건된 이라크 디카르 주 우르의 거대 지구라트 유적입니다.

UR – 달의 도시
우리의 머니 갤러리*에서 가장 최근까지 전시된 가장 오래된 유물은 기원전 2037년경의 점토로 된 설형문자 판이었습니다. 비록 겉모습은 겸손하지만, 그것들은 세계에서 가장 오래된 무역과 금융 거래 기록 중 일부를 나타냅니다. 이 명판들은 현재 이라크 남부에 있는 수메르의 유명한 도시 국가이자 고대 세계에서 가장 오래된 것으로 알려진 도시 중 하나인 우르(𒀕r𒋀)에서 유래했으며 기원전 5,000년경에 진정한 도시로 설립되기 전에 정착지로 거주했습니다.

이 명판들은 우르 제3왕조(통칭 '우르 3세')에 의해 통치되던 도시의 전성기부터 시작되었으며 크고 매우 잘 조직된 국가의 중심이었습니다, 심지어 도시 자체가 컬럼비아 대학의 Marc Van De Mieroop 교수에 의해 후에 '고대 월 스트리트'라고 불리는 전용 금융 지구를 자랑하기도 합니다. 그 절정기에는 약 65,000명의 인구를 가진 세계에서 가장 큰 도시였을 것입니다.


달의 신 난나의 지구라트(사원), E-기시-쉬르갈(𒂍𒄑-shir-gal) 또는 '위대한 빛의 집'을 특징으로 하는 제3왕조 시대 우르 도시의 예술적 재구성. (출처)

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