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58 uncovered by archaeologists: its inlaid panels, front and back, depicted two contradicting scenes of life in Ur. While one of the panels (now known as the “Peace Panel’) de- picted banqueting, commerce, and other scenes of civil ac- tivities, the other (the “War Panel’) depicted a military column of armed and helmeted soldiers and horse-drawn chariots marching to war (Fig. 28). A close examination of the records from that time reveals that indeed while under the leadership of Ur-Nammu Sumer itself flourished, the hostility to the Enlilites by the “rebel lands” increased rather than diminished. The situation ap- parently demanded action, for accordng to Ur-Nammu’s in- scriptions Enlil gave him a “divine weapon that heaps up the rebels in piles” with which to attack “the hostile lands, de- stroy the evil cities and clear them of opposition.’ Those “rebel lands” and “sinning cities” were west of Sumer, the THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 28