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# Portrait or inscription Ruler Approx. date and length of reign Succession and death details Comments, notes, and references 1st Alulim reigned c. 2900 – c...

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near Yusufiyah in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, some 69 km (43 mi) north of Babylon and 30 km (19 mi) southwest of Baghdad. The city's ancient name, Sippar...

Rulers, Priests, and Sacred Marriage: Tracing the Evolution of Early Sumerian Kingship. In Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East." Papers of...

Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate...

second dynasty of Uruk (abbreviated Uruk II) was a dynasty of rulers from the city of Uruk who reign: c. 2550 – c. 2154 BCE. Uruk II is part of the Early Dynastic...

Sumerian King List (SKL), the city of Kish was where the kingship was lowered to from heaven after the Flood, its rulers being the embodiment of human kingship...

Elamite despot who r. temp. Gilgamesh of Uruk (r. c. 2700 – c. 2650 BCE). This unknown person is the first ruler said on the Sumerian King List (SKL) to have...

(king) and/or an "ensi" (priest). It was understood that rulers were determined by the deity of the city and rule could be transferred from one city to...

begins with the antediluvian rulers and ends with Sin-magir of the Isin dynasty (r. 1827–1817). The list was most likely written in Sin-magir's final year,...

Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: تل ٱلْمُقَيَّر) in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate...

under the control of Eshnunna in that period. It is also known that the rulers of Eshnunna continued cult activities in the city of Akkad. Khalid al-Admi...

above. In reference to his immortality in some versions of The Death of Gilgamesh Again in reference to his immortality in The Poem of Early Rulers As Xisuthros...

culture of lower Mesopotamia; but, it is not yet known whether the founders of Eridu were Sumerian. The Sumerian King List (SKL) is an ancient regnal list (written...

Meskalamdug (who r. c. 2600 – c. 2550 BCE as a king). Mesannepada (r. c. 2500 BCE) is the first king of Ur listed on the SKL. Two other rulers earlier than...

says ruled for 36 years. A separate regnal list discovered in Susa names an additional twelve Elamite rulers beside the three on the SKL: Peli, Tata, Ukku-Tanhish...

Meskalamdug was an ancient Iraqi ruler. He ruled sometime during the Early Dynastic IIIa period (c. 2600 – c. 2500 BCE); additionally, temp. Ur-Pabilsag...

Ursangpae was an ancient Iraqi ruler. He ruled sometime during the Early Dynastic IIIa period (c. 2600 – c. 2500 BCE); additionally, temp. Ur-Pabilsag...

The dynasty of Eridu was a dynasty of two or three rulers from the city of Eridu who reign: c. 3000 – c. 2800 BCE. This dynasty is part of the Early Dynastic...

above. In reference to his immortality in some versions of The Death of Gilgamesh Again in reference to his immortality in The Poem of Early Rulers As Xisuthros...