southern Mesopotamia, could be western variants of Sumer. Most historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 – c. 3300...

Eannatum (Sumerian: 𒂍𒀭𒈾𒁺 É.AN.NA-tum2) was a Sumerian Ensi (ruler or king) of Lagash circa 2500–2400 BCE. He established one of the first verifiable...

History of Sumer The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk...

religion Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in...

title lugal in 3rd-millennium Sumer. Some scholars believe that a ruler of an individual city-state was usually called ensi, and a ruler who headed a confederacy...

was one of Sumer's largest cities, has been estimated to have had a population of 50,000 – 80,000 at its peak. Given the other cities in Sumer and its large...

who carried off the kingship of the land of Sumer to the mountain land, who fi[ll]ed the land of Sumer with wickedness, who took away the wife from the...

The Renaissance of Sumer is a period of the history of Mesopotamia that includes the years between the fall of the Akkadian Empire and the period of the...

Lagash Gudea (Sumerian: 𒅗𒌤𒀀, Gu3-de2-a) was a ruler (ensi) of the state of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia, who ruled c. 2080–2060 BC (short chronology)...

is listed in the WB-62 Sumerian King List recension as the last king of Sumer prior to the Great Flood. He is subsequently recorded as the hero of the...

conquer the whole of Sumer, until he was himself vanquished by Sargon of Akkad. History of Iraq In older work, including King's, "énsi" was transliterated...

Les inscriptions de Sumer et d'Akkad, transcription et traduction. Paris, Leroux. p. 229. Vojtech Zamarovský, Na počiatku bol Sumer, Mladé letá, 1968 Bratislava...

ensi of Marhashi; Enlil-ezzu, ensi of [...]; SHESH-kel (?), ensi of Kel; Su-Anum, ensi of Kagalla (?); [...]-Ellum, ensi of Amdama; Ibi-mama, ensi of...

Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations; and to marry their daughters...

Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-53338-4. Page 33. MAEDA, TOHRU (1981). "KING OF KISH" IN PRE-SARGONIC SUMER. Orient:...

Lugalshaengur Ensi Lagash (Sumerian: 𒈗𒊮𒇉 𒑐𒋼𒋛 𒉢𒁓𒆷), "Lugalshaengur, Governor of Lagash" on the mace of Mesilim Asia portal History of Sumer "CDLI-Found...

According to the Sumerian King List (ETCSL 2.1.1), Kish had the hegemony of Sumer where he reigned 625 years, succeeding his father Enmebaragesi to the throne...

ruled for about a century after his death until the Gutian conquest of Sumer. The Sumerian King List makes him the cup-bearer to King Ur-Zababa of Kish...

ensi of Marhashi; Enlil-ezzu, ensi of [...]; SHESH-kel (?), ensi of Kel; Su-Anum, ensi of Kagalla (?); [...]-Ellum, ensi of Amdama; Ibi-mama, ensi of...

gate and the inner wall" Sumer 41, pp. 19, 22, Arabic section pp. 34–35, 1985 [15]Ali, Shah Mohammed, "The Southern Palace", Sumer 41, pp. 52–54, Arabic...

of the lands conquered by King Eannatum of Lagash in Sumer, circa 2500 BCE: Eannatum, the ensi of Lagash, who was granted might by Enlil, who constantly...

also plates. "Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative". "The inscription by an ensi called Enhegal dates from the Early Dynastic period IH, around 2570 BC."...

island in the Sea of Okhotsk Ush, king of Umma, King or ensi of Umma, a city-state in Sumer, circa 2450 BCE Ugandan shilling (abbreviated USh), the currency...

BC, was a son of Enannatum I who he re-established Lagash as a power in Sumer. He defeated Il, king of Umma, in a territorial conflict through an alliance...

was not common until about 2500 BC. An Early Dynastic II king (Ensi) of Uruk in Sumer, Gilgamesh (c. 2600 BC), was commended for military exploits against...

House' (Cuneiform: E₂.GAL Sumerian e₂-gal Akkdian: ekallu) where the lugal or ensi lived and worked. The palaces of the early Mesopotamian elites were large-scale...

mighty king of Agade, Lugalushumgal, ensi of Lagash, is thy servant." List of Mesopotamian dynasties History of Sumer List of kings of Akkad Full transcription...

the ruler Ur-Iskur, when she went (back) to Hamazi". A further possible ensi, under Su-Sin, was Arad-Nanna, though that is thinly attested. According...

Kirasheniwe and took prisoner Baba the governor of Simurrum, and Dubul the ensi of Arame". Other year names refer to his construction work on temples in...

and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 6000 BC and 400 AD. The religious...