in area divided into four sectors by an ancient channel, appears to have been a harbor and trading center associated with Ur in the later half of the 3rd Millennium BC. The site was a medium sized city in the Early Dynastic period but shrank down to a small area in the northeast sector in the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods. Among the finds was a large perforated potter's wheel and two bricks inscribed with the name of Ur III king Amar-Sin. See also Correspondence of the Kings of Ur History of Iraq History of Sumer The lake and city of Urmia in Iran List of cities of the ancient Near East Lyres of Ur Ram in a Thicket Royal Game of Ur Short chronology References Notes: Bibliography: Black, J. and Spada, G., "Texts from Ur: Kept in the Iraq Museum and the British Museum.", Nisaba 19, Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichitá 2008 Crawford, Harriet. Ur: The City of the Moon God. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. D’Agostino, F., Pomponio, F., and Laurito, R., "Neo-Sumerian Texts from Ur in the British Museum.", Nisaba 5, Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichitá, 2004 C. J. Gadd. History and monuments of Ur, Chatto & Windus, 1929 (Dutton 1980 reprint: ). P. R. S. Morrey. "Where Did They Bury the Kings of the IIIrd Dynasty of Ur?", Iraq, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 1–18, 1984. P.R.S. Morrey. ”What Do We Know About the People Buried in the Royal Cemetery?”, Expedition Magazine, Penn Museum, vol. 20, iss. 1, pp. 24–40, 1977 J. Oates, "Ur and Eridu: The Prehistory", Iraq, vol. 22, pp. 32–50, 1960. Pardo Mata, Pilar, "Ur, ciudad de los sumerios". Cuenca: Alderaban, 2006. . Susan Pollock, “Chronology of the Royal Cemetery of Ur”, Iraq, vol. 47, pp. 129–158, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1985 Susan Pollock, “Of Priestesses, Princes and Poor Relations: The Dead in the Royal Cemetery of Ur”, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 1, iss. 2, 1991 Licia Romano and Franco D'Agostino, "Abu Tbeirah Excavations I. Area 1: Last Phase and Building A – Phase 1", Sapienza Università Editrice, Jun 7, 2019, Leon Legrain, "Ur Excavations III: Archaic seal-impressions", Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to Mesopotamia : Ur excavations, Oxford University Press, 1936 Wencel, M. M., "New radiocarbon dates from southern Mesopotamia (Fara and Ur)", Iraq, 80, pp. 251-261,