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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 .
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- Gilgamesh
Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (Sumerian: 𒌉𒍣, romanized: Dumuzid; Akkadian: Duʾūzu, Dûzu; Hebrew: תַּמּוּז, romanized: Tammūz), known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (Sumerian: 𒌉𒍣𒉺𒇻, romanized: Dumuzid sipad) and to the Canaanites as Adon (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍; Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with ...
- Inanna (later known as Ishtar)
- Geshtinanna (sister), Amashilama (not usually, but in some texts said to be his sister)
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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. 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 it ...
Dumuzid "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 it claims he ruled in Uruk for 100 years — far fewer than the 1200 years it ascribes ...
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...
Dumuzid the Fisherman. Dumuzid, titled the Fisherman, was a legendary Sumerian king of Uruk listed originating from Kuara. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dumuzid the Fisherman has received more than 45,805 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia.
