May 3, 2025
foundation nail with kneeling god | c. 2120 - 2110 BCE | ĝirsu, lagash, sumer (modern day dhi qar governorate, iraq). reign of gudea.
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foundation nail with kneeling god | c. 2120 - 2110 BCE | ĝirsu, lagash, sumer (modern day dhi qar governorate, iraq). reign of gudea.
in the louvre collection
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As someone who did not have a lot of faith in the legitimacy of the security guard scandal from the beginning, we CANNOT be using the Gudea article as proof, guys. This is an AI company who is not very open about their methodology. They weren’t a legitimate source when they covered Taylor Swift and they aren’t a legitimate source now. If people want to believe that the security guard and Chappell are both lying with no evidence other than their biases (because even the mother was not that sure about thinking he was Chappell’s security), then they’re going to do that. Using this article to make them look dumb for believing this only makes Chappell look worse.
Gudea
A ruler of Lagash in the post-Akkadian period, c 2125 BC, known from the numerous inscribed statues of him at Tello. These are among the best-known objects of Sumerian art.
https://archaeologs.com/words/gudea
hi! might be a little out of your wheelhouse, but i was recently watching a video about math and sumerian architecture (we found a lost temple using maths sent by an ancient sumerian god | curator's corner w. matt parker) and at roughly 15:00, the curator says that this one bit of text translates to "to make things function as they should"
i tried to find a more in-depth translation of this but couldn't find anything, so maybe i'm just not looking in the right places, but any help would be great!
Hello, and thanks for sharing this video! Link is here for anyone who wants to watch, it discusses Sumerian math, architecture and Gudea. Note first that the text in question is written vertically along the statue's skirt, so you have to tilt your head to the right to be able to read the signs.
I couldn't seem to find a version of this statue in transliteration, but I do recognize some of the listed signs, so found a similar phrase: Ningdu irinake pa bie, which the ETCSL translates as "He had everything function as it should in his city." From that I was able to piece together the rest, as the initial ningdu "propriety, what is as it should be" is the same, 𒃻𒌌, and the verb pa ... e 𒉺 𒌓𒁺 "to show, make manifest" appears too, though here with bonus verb prefix muna- 𒈬𒈾 "for him/her". The third sign looks to me like a mistranscribed final -e 𒂊, the directive case ending.
So the full phrase would be Ningdue pa munae 𒃻𒌌𒂊 𒉺 𒈬𒈾𒌓𒁺. And searching for that led me to several instances of this phrase, which Oracc generally translates as "For [him]... he made an eternal thing appear" or "For [him]... he made it appear in its correct form", with the [him] being a person referred to earlier in the text. (The muna- prefix isn't gendered, so it could also be "for [her]" etc, but all the examples I found refer to a man or male deity.) See also the similar phrase at the start of The Song of the Hoe "Not only did the lord make the world appear in its correct form..." Ene ningdue pa nan'gamine.
I'd translate this phrase more fluidly/generally as "He made manifest the proper form/function for (so-and-so)". Parker's translation as an infinitive is an approximation given it's being pulled from context. I hope that's helpful!
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The monumental royal cone of Gudea
Official or display cone excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC) period and now kept in Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Sumerian Text
(d)nin-gir2-su ur-sag kal-ga (d)en-lil2-la2 lugal-a-ni gu3-de2-a ensi2 lagasz(ki)-ke4 nig2-du7-e pa mu-na-e3 e2-ninnu anzu2(muszen)-babbar2-ra-ni mu-na-du3 ki-be2 mu-na-gi4
GUDEA WITH ARCHITECTURAL PLAN [circa 2150 B.C. | diorite | height: 29″]
Nouveau retour à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 55500 photos (et des brouettes). Plus trop loin du présent….
2016. Au Louvre-Lens, il y eut une expo : “L’Histoire commence en Mésopotamie”
- tablette de fondation - Girsu, époque Néo-Sumérienne, sous Ur-Bau, 2150 av.J-C.
- lion - Babylone, ép. Néo-Babylonienne, sous le règne de Nabuchodonosor II, 580 av.J-C.
- les 2 suivantes : clou de fondation - Girsu, époque Néo-Sumérienne sous le règne de Gudea 2100 av.J-C.
- scène sexuelle - Girsu, époque Amorrite, 1800 av.J-C.
- tablette de fondation - Girsu, époque Néo-Sumérienne, sous le règne d’Ur-Bau 2150 av.J-C.
