קינה על חורבן אור
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Critical research
Dating
The Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur is a 436-line Sumerian poem mourning the fall of Ur. It is the oldest known ancestor of the literary genre of city laments — a genre that would culminate in Jeremiah's Lamentations (Eikhah) on the destruction of Jerusalem.
