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Feb 8, 2023 · The Matter of Aratta concerns Enmerkar's efforts in forcing the king of Aratta to submit to him. Aratta is depicted in several Sumerian poems, pre-dating the Matter of Aratta, as a city of fabulous wealth which lay far beyond the boundaries of Sumer.
- Joshua J. Mark
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is a legendary Sumerian account, preserved in early post-Sumerian copies, composed in the Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). It is one of a series of accounts describing the conflicts between Enmerkar , king of Unug-Kulaba , and the unnamed king of Aratta .
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Apr 11, 2006 · The tale then recounts Lugalbanda's encounter with the great and terrible Anzu bird, how he got some pretty cool pre-biblical super powers, and the course Enmerkar's war eventually takes. In the end, Lugalbanda is king and his son becomes the great Gilgamesh of lore.
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- Kathy Henderson
Despite his proclaimed divine descent from the poems, Enmerkar was not deified as his successors Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh. These two last kings were already listed in the god lists of Shuruppak and received offerings during the Ur III period (2112-2004 BC). It concluded that Enmerkar was only remembered as the founder and first king of Uruk.
- Uruk I
- c. 3400-3100 BC (Late Uruk Period)
Epic of Gilgamesh tablets. v. t. e. Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave (or Lugalbanda I, Lugalbanda in the Wilderness) is a Sumerian mythological account. It is one of the four known stories that belong to the same cycle describing conflicts between Enmerkar, king of Unug ( Uruk ), and an unnamed king of Aratta.
Apr 11, 2006 · The oldest written Sumerian story tells of the youth of Lugalbanda, father of the famous Gilgamesh. Lugalbanda was the youngest son of Enmerkar, who drained the marshes to build the city of Uruk (according to myth, at the direction of the goddess Inanna).
Enmerkar, ancient Sumerian hero and king of Uruk (Erech), a city-state in southern Mesopotamia, who is thought to have lived at the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd millennium bc. Along with Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh, Enmerkar is one of the three most significant figures in the surviving.
