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Code of Ur-Nammu

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Code of Ur-Nammu
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Code of Ur-Nammu

Summary

Code of Ur-Nammu is a clay tablet[1]. It draws 175 Wikipedia views per month (clay_tablet category, ranking #3 of 11).[2]

Key Facts

  • Code of Ur-Nammu authored Ur-Nammu[3].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu is in the country of Third Dynasty of Ur[4].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's image is recorded as Ur Nammu code Istanbul.jpg[5].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's instance of is recorded as clay tablet[6].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's instance of is recorded as law[7].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's instance of is recorded as sources of law[8].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's follows is recorded as Urukagina's code[9].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's made from material is recorded as clay[10].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's collection is recorded as Istanbul Archaeology Museums[11].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's location is recorded as Ur[12].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's language of work or name is recorded as Sumerian[13].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's start time is recorded as -2050-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 30.96222, 'lon': 46.10444}[15].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vqblm[16].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Codex-of-Ur-Nammu[17].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Code-of-Ur-Nammu[18].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4701293[19].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's World History Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Code_of_Ur-Nammu[20].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 114849[21].
  • Code of Ur-Nammu's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as zakony-ur-nammu-c6e204[22].

Body

Geography

Code of Ur-Nammu is in the country of Third Dynasty of Ur[4].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include clay tablet[6], law[7], and sources of law[8].

Why It Matters

Code of Ur-Nammu draws 175 Wikipedia views per month (clay_tablet category, ranking #3 of 11).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

law Ur-Nammu

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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