Position in chronology
En-šakuš-Ana 3
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For ..., En-šakuš-Ana, en of Sumer, king of the Land, child of Elili, built his temple.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001366/
Why it matters
Attests the royal title 'en of Sumer, king of the Land' for En-šakuš-Ana c. 2450 BCE, placing this ruler among the earliest documented claimants to pan-Sumerian sovereignty before Sargon of Akkad.
Transliteration
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 Q001366.
Attribution
Image: Erm 14375 (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) — from Uruk (mod. Warka) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P222884). 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/Q001366/.
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