being constructed. In Early Dynastic IIIA (c. 2750/2600-2500 BCE), an inscription of Elulu, a ruler of the First Dynasty of Ur , was found at Eridu. In Early Dynastic IIIB (c. 2500-2350 BCE), a statue of the ruler Entemena of Lagash (c. 2400 BCE) reads: "he built Ab-zupasira for Enki, king of Eridu ...".

According to the excavators, construction of the Ur III