At the beginning of 3rd dynasty of Ur Sirara was a temple complex which housed a number of competent administrators and officials responsible for the infrastructure connecting the Gutians and neighboring Lagash which at the time were both completely independent city states. The Third Dynasty of Ur refers simultaneously to a 21st to 20th century BC ( Short chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Gutium was a tribe that overran southern Mesopotamia when the Akkadian empire collapsed ca Lagash ( is modern Tell al-Hiba, Iraq. Located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk
Both states were expansionist and cooperated in building roads, bridges, wharves, quays, and public buildings. The defining context of the period is Gudeas rebuilding of the temple of Ningursu. Ninurta ( Nin Ur: Lord of the Earth/Plough in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology was the god of Nippur, identified with Ningirsu Statues of Gudea have been preserved with one of the earliest known standards of measure, a bronze rod of 1/2 meter in length.
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