Definitions for Uruk

Uruk U·ruk

Spelling: [oo-roo k]
IPA: /ˈu rʊk/

Uruk is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Uruk (kruu).

Definitions for Uruk

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  1. an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq, near the Euphrates, important before 2000 b.c.: exclusive archaeological excavations, notably of a ziggurat and of tablets with very early Sumerian script.

Examples for Uruk

In the second tablet, Gilgamesh is introduced as a hero of superior strength and in control of Uruk.

Lugal-zaggisi, as the king of Uruk, assigns to the goddess a first place.

Isin, whose site has not yet been determined, but which lay probably to the north of Uruk, was another political center.

The story of Khasisatra, in the poem of Uruk, invariably proceeds hebdomadally.

Sin-gashid of the dynasty of Uruk makes mention of this deity at the beginning of one of his inscriptions.

From a passage in a subsequent tablet it appears that Uruk is not the native place of the hero, but Marada.

The third and fourth tablets take us back to the history of Uruk.

A lexicographical tablet informs us that Uruk was specially well fortified.

Sin-gashid, of Uruk, servitor of Lugal-banda and Nin-gul, 95-6.

Sin-gamil, of Uruk, builds sanctuaries to Nergal at Cuthah, 66.

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