Ur-Nammu ben Kessed

• Preferred Name: Ur-Nammu ben Kessed^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Alternate Name: Ur-Nammu King of Ur
  
• Gender: M
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Ur/6000000030579803368?through=6000000003233561957
  
• Affiliation: with note: Description: 8240 BC ?
  
• Affiliation: with note: Description: more info plz
  
• Birth: 2240 BC
  
• Occupation: King Of Ur, And King Of Sumer And Akkad in Ūr, Dhī Qār, Iraq at LATI: N0.9561 LONG: E6.1278 with note: Ur-Nammu is a well documented ruler throughout various cuneiform tablets.
  
• Death: Y
  
• FSID: LKD4-HZZ
  
• Notes:

  === Code of Ur-Nammu (laws enacted by Ur-Nammu) ===
  
  1. If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed.
  
  2. If a man commits a robbery, he will be killed.
  
  3. If a man commits a kidnapping, he is to be imprisoned and pay 15 shekels of silver.[1]
  
  4. If a slave marries a slave, and that slave is set free, he does not leave the household.^
  
  5. If a slave marries a native (i.e. free) person, he/she is to hand the firstborn son over to his owner.
  
  6. If a man violates the right of another and deflowers the virgin wife of a young man, they shall kill that male.
  
  7. If the wife of a man followed after another man and he slept with her, they shall slay that woman, but that male shall be set free. (§4 in some translations)
  
  8. If a man proceeded by force, and deflowered the virgin female slave of another man, that man must pay five shekels of silver. (5)
  
  9. If a man divorces his first-time wife, he shall pay (her) one mina of silver. (6)
  
  10. If it is a (former) widow whom he divorces, he shall pay (her) half a mina of silver. (7)
  
  11. If the man had slept with the widow without there having been any marriage contract, he need not pay any silver. (8)
  
  13. If a man is accused of [Translation of word disputed. some interpret as Sorcery...], he must undergo ordeal by water; if he is proven innocent, his accuser must pay 3 shekels. (10)[5]
  
  14. If a man accused the wife of a man of adultery, and the river ordeal proved her innocent, then the man who had accused her must pay one-third of a mina of silver. (11)
  
  15. If a prospective son-in-law enters the house of his prospective father-in-law, but his father-in-law later gives his daughter to another man, the father-in-law shall return to the rejected son-in-law twofold the amount of bridal presents he had brought. (12)
  
  16. If [text destroyed...], he shall weigh and deliver to him 2 shekels of silver.
  
  17. If a slave escapes from the city limits, and someone returns him, the owner shall pay two shekels to the one who returned him. (14)
  
  18. If a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out ½ a mina of silver. (15)
  
  19. If a man has cut off another man's foot, he is to pay ten shekels. (16)
  
  20. If a man, in the course of a scuffle, smashed the limb of another man with a club, he shall pay one mina of silver. (17)
  
  21. If someone severed the nose of another man with a copper knife, he must pay two-thirds of a mina of silver. (18)
  
  22. If a man knocks out a tooth of another man, he shall pay two shekels of silver. (19)
  
  24. [text destroyed...] If he does not have a slave, he is to pay 10 shekels of silver. If he does not have silver, he is to give another thing that belongs to him. (21)^
  
  25. If a man's slave-woman, comparing herself to her mistress, speaks insolently to her, her mouth shall be scoured with 1 quart of salt. (22)
  
  26. If a slave woman strikes someone acting with the authority of her mistress, [text destroyed...]
  
  28. If a man appeared as a witness, and was shown to be a perjurer, he must pay fifteen shekels of silver. (25)
  
  29. If a man appears as a witness, but withdraws his oath, he must make payment, to the extent of the value in litigation of the case. (26)
  
  30. If a man stealthily cultivates the field of another man and he raises a complaint, this is however to be rejected, and this man will lose his expenses. (27)
  
  31. If a man flooded the field of a man with water, he shall measure out three kur of barley per iku of field. (28)
  
  32. If a man had let an arable field to a(nother) man for cultivation, but he did not cultivate it, turning it into wasteland, he shall measure out three kur of barley per iku of field. (29)

1. Ôrâ bat 'Ûr ben Kesed, b. ABT 2213 BC in Ur, Chaldea, Mesopotamia     d. ABT 1973 BC in Ur, Chaldea, Mesopotamia

1. Title: Geni: Ur
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Ur/6000000030579803368;
   Note: Ur . Gender: Male Birth: -2292 Immediate Family: Son of Kessed . and Ninsun . Husband of NN . Father of Ora Chaldees . Brother of Hua Mu'ak . and Ura . Half brother of NN . Added by: OO on December 3, 2014 Managed by: Wan Ahmad Wan Arshad and Dawn Ann Bester Immediate Family Showing 8 people NN . wife Ora Chaldees . daughter Kessed . father Ninsun . mother Hua Mu'ak . sister Ura . sister Anar . stepfather
   
2. Title: Ur Numnu in the Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/22299225;
   Note: Name: Ur Numnu Gender: m (Male) Children: Ora bat UR URL: https://www.genealogieonline.n...
   
3. Title: FABPEDIGREE: Ur ben KESED also known as Ur-Nammu; eponym of city of UR
   Publication: Name: https://fabpedigree.com/s054/f137707.htm;
   
4. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree