Ur-Nammu

[ oor-nah-moo ]

noun

1. king of the Sumerian city-state of Ur c2000 b.c.

Example Sentences

This period saw the creation of the oldest known law code, the Code of Ur-Nammu, as well as one of the world’s most bureaucratic states.

From National Geographic

King Ur-Nammu of Ur, an ancient city in what is now Iraq, proclaimed that “if a slave escapes from the city limits and someone returns him, the owner shall pay two shekels to the one who returned him.”

From Wall Street Journal