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Uruk I. Enmerkar [a] [b] was an ancient Sumerian ruler to whom the construction of the city of Uruk and a 420-year reign [c] was attributed. According to literary sources, he led various campaigns against the land of Aratta. He is credited in Sumerian legend as the inventor of writing. [4]
- Uruk I
- c. 3400-3100 BC (Late Uruk Period)
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 Sumerian epics. Although scholars once assumed that ...
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1 day ago · Enmerkar, the king of Uruk, a prominent Sumerian city-state, receives a message from the Lord of Aratta, a powerful city located in the mountains. The message from Aratta demands that Uruk submit to its rule and pay tribute. Enmerkar, unwilling to yield to Aratta's demands, devises a plan to challenge the Lord of Aratta's authority.
Mar 23, 2020 · King List adds that Enmerkar brought the official kingship with him from the city of E-ana after his father, Meskiaggasher, son of Utu, had "entered the sea and disappeared." Enmerkar founded Uruk, the largest settlement in southern Mesopotamia, around 4500 BC, and was said to have reigned for "420 years" (some versions even propose "900 years").
For most of its history, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta in the Peloponnese was ruled by kings. Sparta was unusual among the Greek city-states in that it maintained its kingship past the Archaic age. It was even more unusual in that it had two kings simultaneously, who were called the archagetai, coming from two separate lines.
YearAgiadc. 930 BCc. 930 – 900 BC [n 3]c. 900 – 870 BCc. 870 – 840 BCFeb 8, 2023 · The Matter of Aratta is the modern-day title for a collection of four poems – Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, and Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird – concerning the rivalry between the cities of Uruk and Aratta and dated to the Ur III Period (2047-1750 BCE). Tablet of King Lugalbanda.
My king who from his birth has been fitted for lordship (1 ms. has instead: for the crown), the lord of Unug, the sajkal snake living in Sumer, who pulverizes mountains (2 mss. have instead: heads) like flour, the stag of the tall mountains, endowed with princely antlers, wild cow, kid pawing the the holy soapwort with its hoof, whom the good ...
