He is beyond question the earliest Chaldaean monarch of whom any remains have been obtained in the country.

Not only are his bricks found in a lower position than any others, at the very foundations of buildings, but they are of a rude and coarse make, and the inscriptions upon them contrast most remarkably, in the simplicity of the style of writing used and in their general archaic type, with the elaborate and often complicated symbols of the later monarchs.

The style of Urukh's buildings is also primitive and simple in the extreme; his bricks are of many sizes, and ill fitted together; he belongs to a time when even the baking of bricks seems to have been comparatively rare, for sometimes he employs only the sun-dried material; and he is altogether unacquainted with the use of lime mortar, for which his substitute is moist mud, or else bitumen.

There can be little doubt that he stands at the head of the present series of monumental kings, another of whom probably reigned as early as B.C.2286.

As he was succeeded by a son, whose reign seems to have been of the average length, we must place his accession at least as early as B.C.