User:SomeGuyWhoRandomlyEdits/King of Ur
| Occupation | |
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Activity sectors | Government |
List of rulers to have held the title[edit]
Early Dynastic IIIa period (c. 2600 – c. 2500 BCE)[edit]
Predynastic Ur (c. 2600 – c. 2550 BCE)[edit]
| Portrait or inscription | Ruler | Approx. date and length of reign | Succession and death details | Comments, notes, and references |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Ur-Pabilsag | reigned c. 2600 – c. 2550 BCE (≈80 years) |
Son of A-Imdugud (?) d. c. 2550 BCE |
Kalam dynasty of Ur (c. 2550 – c. 2510 BCE)[edit]
| Portrait or inscription | Ruler | Approx. date and length of reign | Succession and death details | Comments, notes, and references |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Meskiagnun I | r. c. 2550 – c. 2514 BCE (36 years) |
Son of Mesannepada (?) | |
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Akalamdug | r. c. 2514 – c. 2510 BCE (≈4 years) |
Son of Meskalamdug (?) | |
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Meskalamdug | r. c. 2510 BCE (≈1 year) |
Son of Akalamdug (?) |
Early Dynastic IIIb period (c. 2500 – c. 2334 BCE)[edit]
Ur I dynasty (c. 2510 – c. 2300 BCE)[edit]
| Portrait or inscription | Ruler | Approx. date and length of reign | Succession and death details | Comments, notes, and references |
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Mesannepada | r. c. 2510 – c. 2430 BCE (80 years) |
Son of Meskalamdug (?) | |
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A'annepada | r. c. 2430 BCE (≈1 year) |
Son of Mesannepada | |
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Lugalkinishedudu | r. c. 2430 – c. 2400 BCE (≈30 years) |
Unclear succession | |
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Lugal-kisalsi | r. c. 2400 – c. 2375 BCE (≈25 years) |
Son of Lugalkinishedudu | |
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Elulu | r. c. 2375 – c. 2350 BCE (25 years) |
Unclear succession | |
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Enshakushanna | r. c. 2350 – c. 2348 BCE (≈2 years) |
Son of Elulu (?) | |
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Lugalzagesi | r. c. 2348 – c. 2316 BCE (34 years) |
Son of Ukush | |
| Lunanna | r. c. 2316 – c. 2300 BCE (≈16 years) |
Unclear succession | ||
Ur III period (c. 2119 – c. 2004 BCE)[edit]
Ur III dynasty (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BCE)[edit]
| Portrait or inscription | Ruler | Approx. date and length of reign | Succession and death details | Comments, notes, and references |
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Ur-Nammu | r. c. 2112 – c. 2094 BCE (18 years) |
Unclear succession | |
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Shulgi | r. c. 2094 – c. 2046 BCE (48 years) |
Son of Ur-Nammu | |
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Amar-Suen | r. c. 2046 – c. 2037 BCE (9 years) |
Son of Shulgi | |
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Shu-Suen | r. c. 2037 – c. 2028 BCE (9 years) |
Son of Ur-Nammu | |
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Ibbi-Suen | r. c. 2028 – c. 2004 BCE (28 years) |
Son of Shu-Suen |
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Bibliography[edit]
Journals[edit]
- Marchesi, Gianni (2015). Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo (eds.). "Toward a Chronology of Early Dynastic Rulers in Mesopotamia". History and Philology (ARCANE 3; Turnhout).
External links[edit]
Further reading[edit]
Geography[edit]
Language[edit]
- Black, Jeremy Allen; Baines, John Robert; Dahl, Jacob L.; Van De Mieroop, Marc (2024) [1997]. Cunningham, Graham; Ebeling, Jarle; Flückiger-Hawker, Esther; Robson, Eleanor; Taylor, Jon; Zólyomi, Gábor (eds.). "ETCSL: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature". Faculty of Oriental Studies (revised ed.). United Kingdom (published 1997–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25.
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.
- Renn, Jürgen; Dahl, Jacob L.; Lafont, Bertrand; Pagé-Perron, Émilie (2024) [1998]. "CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative" (published 1998–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25.
Images presented online by the research project Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) are for the non-commercial use of students, scholars, and the public. Support for the project has been generously provided by the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (ILMS), and by the Max Planck Society (MPS), Oxford and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); network services are from UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities.
- Sjöberg, Åke Waldemar; Leichty, Erle; Tinney, Steve (2024) [2003]. "PSD: The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary" (published 2003–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25.
The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD) is carried out in the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. It is funded by the NEH and private contributions. [They] work with several other projects in the development of tools and corpora. [Two] of these have useful websites: the CDLI and the ETCSL.