{{Short description|Ruler of Lagash in present-day Iraq (r. 21st or 20th century BCE)}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Ur-Baba<br>{{nobold|{{script|Xsux|𒌨𒀭𒁀𒌑}}}} | image = Diorite Statue of Ur-Ba'u, Prince of Lagash, c. 2130 BC.jpg | image_size = 250 | caption = Diorite Statue of Ur-Ba'u (Ur-Baba), Prince of Lagash. Louvre Museum, AO 9.<ref>{{cite web |title=Site officiel du musée du Louvre |url=http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not&idNotice=11976 |website=cartelfr.louvre.fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Eppihimer |first1=Melissa |title=Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians |date=2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-090302-2 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1iieDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 |language=en}}</ref> | death_date = c. 2144 BC | spouse = | issue = Ninalla | reign = c. 2164 – c. 2144 BC | father = | predecessor = Possibly Kaku | successor = Gudea | dynasty = 2nd Dynasty of Lagash | succession = King of Lagash }} {{Location map | Near East | width = 260px | float = right | border = | caption = Location of Lagash | alt = | relief = yes | AlternativeMap = | overlay_image = | label = Lagash | label_size = | position = | background = | mark = | marksize = | link = | lat_deg = 31.411389 | lon_deg = 46.407222 }} '''Ur-Baba''' or '''Ur-Bau''' ({{langx|sux|{{cuneiform|𒌨𒀭𒁀𒌑}}}} <small>{{Transliteration|sux|ur-<sup>D</sup>ba.ba<sub>6</sub>}}</small> or <small>{{Transliteration|sux|ur-<sup>D</sup>ba.U<sub>2</sub>}}</small>, ''servant of the goddess Bau''; died {{Circa}} 2144 BC) was ''ensi'' of Lagash from 2093 BC – 2080 BC (short chronology) or 2157 BC – 2144 BC (middle chronology), roughly contemporaneous with the last king of Akkad, Shu-turul.<ref name="GL"/> In one of his inscriptions, he refers to himself as a child of the god Ninagal ({{langx|sux|{{cuneiform|𒀭𒎏𒀉𒃲}}}}).<ref name="SE"/>
According to inscriptions of Ur-Baba, during his reign, Lagash enjoyed prosperity and independence from the Akkadians. His daughter Ninalla married Gudea, who succeeded him as ''ensi''.<ref name="GL">{{cite book |last1=Leick |first1=Gwendolyn |title=Who's Who in the Ancient Near East |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134787951 |page=185 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3A2GAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT185 |language=en}}</ref>
<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4"> File:Girsu Tablet of Ur-Baba.jpg|Tablet of Ur-Baba, Girsu<ref name="SE"/> File:Cone with name and title of Ur-Bau (Ur-Baba), king of Lagash.jpg|Cone with name and title of Ur-Baba, king of Lagash File:Ur-Bau foundation tablet.jpg|Ur-Bau foundation tablet. Walters Art Museum. File:Ur-Bau foundation tablet (front detail).jpg|Ur-Bau foundation tablet (front detail). Walters Art Museum. File:God nailing foundation-AO 311-P5280789-gradient.jpg|Foundation figurine of Ur-Baba Cuneiform dedication cone of Ur-Bau, Lagash, c. 2200-2100 BC - Harvard Semitic Museum - Cambridge, MA - DSC06150.jpg|Cuneiform dedication cone of Ur-Bau Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041.jpg|Ur-Baba inscription plaque enumerating the temples erected by him; Louvre collection (AO 261).<ref name="SE">Full translation of the tablet: {{cite book|last1=Edzard|first1=Sibylle|last2=Edzard|first2=Dietz Otto|title=Gudea and His Dynasty|date=1997|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-4187-6|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0guVA19YUVoC&pg=PA20|language=en}}</ref> </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}} {{S-start}} {{s-reg}} {{Succession box | before = Possibly Kaku | title = King of Lagash | years = c. 2164 – c. 2144 BC | after = Gudea }} {{s-end}}
Category:22nd-century BC Sumerian kings Category:Kings of Lagash Category:3rd-millennium BC births Category:22nd-century BC deaths
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