sentences:  During the Ur III period, Zabala was controlled by the Ur governor in Umma which was the capital of Umma Province.Cuneiform texts state that Hammurabi built Zabala's temple Ezi-Kalam-ma to the goddess Innana.The temple of Inanna in Zabalam is the subject of hymn 26 in the temple hymns of Enheduanna.Beginning in the early 1900s, a great deal of illegal excavation occurred in Zabala.