Ur of the Chaldeans

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Mesopotamian city ancient city archaeological site

Ur of the Chaldeans is an ancient Mesopotamian city traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mesopotamian city → ancient city → archaeological site →
associatedWithCulture	Babylonian civilization → Sumerian civilization →
associatedWithPeople	Chaldeans →
associatedWithTextualTradition	Biblical tradition → Mesopotamian cuneiform texts →
biblicalDesignationOf	Ur →
excavatedBy	Leonard Woolley →
excavationEndYear	1934 →
excavationStartYear	1922 →
flourishedDuring	Ur III period →
governedBy	Achaemenid Empire → Neo-Babylonian Empire → Third Dynasty of Ur →
hasAlternativeName	Ur Kasdim → Ur of the Chaldeans (biblical city) → Ur of the Chaldees →
hasArchaeologicalFeature	Great Ziggurat of Ur →
hasArchaeologicalFind	Royal Tombs of Ur → Royal graves artifacts → Standard of Ur →
hasFeature	city walls → temple complexes →
hasUNESCOTentativeStatus	World Heritage Site (Ur) →
identifiedWith	Ur (Sumerian city) → Ur (Tell el-Muqayyar) →
languageOfName	Hebrew →
locatedIn	Lower Mesopotamia → Southern Mesopotamia → Sumer →
locatedInModernGovernorate	Dhi Qar Governorate →
locatedInPresentDay	Iraq →
locatedNear	Euphrates River →
locatedNearModernCity	Nasiriyah →
majorDeityWorshipped	Nanna → Sin →
mentionedIn	Book of Genesis → Hebrew Bible → Old Testament →
partOf	ancient Near East →
religionPracticed	Mesopotamian religion →
religiousRole	center of lunar cult →
timePeriod	2nd millennium BCE → 3rd millennium BCE →
traditionalBirthplaceOf	Abraham →
wasCapitalOf	Third Dynasty of Ur →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ur of the Chaldeans ("Ur of the Chaldees") → Ur of the Chaldeans ("Ur of the Chaldeans (biblical city)") →	hasAlternativeName
Abraham →	associatedWithPlace
Ur of the Chaldeans ("Ur (Sumerian city)") →	identifiedWith
Sarah →	livedIn