Gadd C.J., Legrain L. Ur Excavation Texts I: Royal Inscriptions: Text

The Trustees of the two museums, 1928. — 124 p.The class of inscriptions comprised in this volume may best be described
by the title chosen as "royal inscriptions," which, although not strictly
applicable to every one, is the most comprehensive. Their style, indeed,
is already familiar to scholars, being common to all the official monuments
of early and later Babylonia. It would be misleading to call such texts historical,
for, in fact, they have extremely few historical allusions, but are concerned mostly
with religious building, and dedications to the gods by princes or courtiers. The
objects upon which they are inscribed are of stone, baked clay, or metal, in the
forms of statues, gate-sockets, mace-heads, cylinder seals, stone vases, plaques,
weights, bricks, clay cones, and tablets.