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En-metena 05a
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) For Inana and Lugal-emuš, En-metena, ruler of Lagaš, child of En-ana-tum, ruler of Lagaš, built the E-muš, their beloved temple. (iii 3) The personal god of En-metena, whose name was proclaimed by Inana, the builder of the E-muš, is Šul-MUŠxPA.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001115/
Why it matters
Records En-metena of Lagaš constructing the E-muš for Inana and Lugal-emuš, naming his personal deity — rare direct evidence of Early Dynastic royal piety and patron-god theology c. 2450 BCE.
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Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q001115.
Attribution
Image: HMA 9-01766 (Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA) — from Girsu (mod. Tello) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P222589). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001115/.
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