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====== King unknown ======
==== Year names where the king is unknown ====



**a. mu ul<sub>3</sub>-ul<sub>3</sub> sze lagaš<sup>ki</sup> giš bi<sub>2</sub>-ra-a **
: Year: "...... the barley of Lagaš was threshed”

  * //RIME// 3/2 (Frayne 1997, 10) lists this year name as Ur-Namma year c.
  * Museum no. Ist Ni 1453. [Also referred to by Scheil, RT 19 (1897) p. 61; RA 14 (1917) p. 163; Radau, 'Early Babylonian History', p. 281 and Sollberger, AfO (1954-1956) p. 13j.] The Ni prefix  indicates that the tablet is (most probably) from Nippur.

**b. mu e<sub>2</sub>-muhaldim <sup>d</sup>nin-šubur ba-du<sub>3</sub>-a **
: Year: "The kitchen (of the temple) of Nin-šubur was built”

  * [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P101737| AOAT 25, p. 82, 11]] (Nippur) rev. 5: mu e2 muhaldim {d}nin-szubur ba-du3-a 
  * (Note the provenience of this tablet) 

  * //RIME// 3/2 (Frayne 1997, 94) lists this year name as Šulgi year 3.

**c. mu id<sub>2</sub>-<sup>d</sup>ba-ba<sub>6</sub>-he<sub>2</sub>-gal<sub>2</sub>-sud ba-ba-al-la **
: Year: "The canal 'Baba-hegal-sud / Baba makes abundance last' was dug”

  * [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P217025| RTC 253]] (Girsu) rev. 11: mu i7 {d}ba-ba6-he2-gal2-su3 ba-ba-al-la
  * possibly a year of Ur-gar since that name appears in the line preceding the date. 

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