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Dumuzid the Fisherman. Figure of a priest king from the Uruk period (3300 BC). Dumuzid, [a] titled the Fisherman, [b] was a legendary Sumerian king of Uruk listed originating from Kuara. According to legend, in the one-hundredth year of his reign, he was captured by Enmebaragesi .
According to the Sumerian King List ( ETCSL 2.1.1 ), Dumuzid was the fifth antediluvian king of the city of Bad-tibira. [4] Dumuzid was also listed as an early king of Uruk, [4] where he was said to have come from the nearby village of Kuara [4] and to have been the consort of the goddess Inanna. [4]
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The two rulers mentioned in the Sumerian king list are Dumuzid of Bad-Tibira, the shepherd and the fifth King before the flood, and Dumuzid of Kua, the fisherman. Inanna and Dumuzid: A Turbulent Relationship. Based on what we know from ancient texts, Inanna and Dumuzid had a complex, often turbulent relationship that may have been an allegory ...
Dumuzid "the Fisherman" was the fourth lugal of the Kingdom of Uruk, and the fourth lugal of the First Dynasty of Uruk. The successor to the previous lugal, Lugalbanda, Dumuzid was famous for having single-handedly captured Lugal Enmebaragesi of Kish, an action that eventually led to the Siege of Uruk, where Dumuzid's successor won a crushing victory.
Dumuzid is the Mesopotamian “shepherd god” that is associated with fertility and livestock. He is later known by the name of Tammuz. He is the most well-known lover of Inanna, whom he has married when he was still a mortal. Dumuzid is closely associated with the Greek god, Adonis.
DUMUZI DUMUZI . The god Dumuzi (Akkadian: Tammuz) appears very early in the cuneiform documentation, and an echo of him is still present today, since the month of July in Middle Eastern calendars bears his name. In the history of cuneiform Mesopotamian literatures, the tradition on the god is discontinuous. From the Old-Babylonian period (the ...
Dumuzid, the Fisherman. Dumuzid ( Sumerian: Dumu, " child, son " + Zi(d), " faithful, true ") "the Fisherman", originally from Kuara in Sumer, was the 3rd king in the 1st Dynasty of Uruk, and Gilgamesh ' s predecessor, according to the Sumerian king list. The king list also states that he singlehandedly captured Enmebaragesi, ruler of Kish, and ...
