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King of Umma

Occupation
Activity sectors	Government

List of rulers to have held the title

Early Dynastic I period (c. 2900 – c. 2700 BCE)

Main article: Early Dynastic I

Predynastic Umma (c. 2700 – c. 2600 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Notes and references
Akinana		reigned c. 2700 – c. 2600 BCE (≈100 years)	Unclear succession

Early Dynastic III period (c. 2600 – c. 2334 BCE)

Umma I dynasty (c. 2600 – c. 2300 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Notes and references
Parasagnudi		r. c. 2600 – c. 2570 BCE (≈30 years)	Unclear succession
Eabzu		r. c. 2570 – c. 2520 BCE (≈50 years)
Pabilgagaltuku		r. c. 2520 – c. 2455 BCE (≈65 years)
	Ush	r. c. 2455 – c. 2445 BCE (≈10 years)
	Enakalle	r. c. 2445 – c. 2437 BCE (8 years)
	Ur-Lumma	r. c. 2437 – c. 2425 BCE (12 years)	Son of Enakalle
	Il	r. c. 2425 – c. 2413 BCE (12 years)	Grandson of Enakalle
	Gishakidu	r. c. 2413 – c. 2408 BCE (5 years)	Son of Il
Meanedu		r. c. 2408 – c. 2376 BCE (32 years)	Unclear succession
Ushurdu		r. c. 2376 – c. 2367 BCE (9 years)
Edin		r. c. 2367 – c. 2361 BCE (6 years)
	Ukush	r. c. 2361 – c. 2355 BCE (≈6 years)	Unclear succession
	Lugalzagesi	r. c. 2355 – c. 2348 BCE (≈8 years)	Son of Ukush
Mese		r. c. 2348 – c. 2312 BCE (≈36 years)	Unclear succession
Ennalum		r. c. 2312 – c. 2306 BCE (≈6 years)
Shurushken		r. c. 2306 – c. 2300 BCE (≈6 years)

References

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Bibliography

Journals

• Marchesi, Gianni (2015). Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo (eds.). "Toward a Chronology of Early Dynastic Rulers in Mesopotamia". History and Philology (ARCANE 3; Turnhout).

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Geography

Language

• Black, Jeremy Allen; Baines, John Robert; Dahl, Jacob L.; Van De Mieroop, Marc (2024) [1997]. Cunningham, Graham; Ebeling, Jarle; Flückiger-Hawker, Esther; Robson, Eleanor; Taylor, Jon; Zólyomi, Gábor (eds.). "ETCSL: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature". Faculty of Oriental Studies (revised ed.). United Kingdom (published 1997–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25. The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.
• Renn, Jürgen; Dahl, Jacob L.; Lafont, Bertrand; Pagé-Perron, Émilie (2024) [1998]. "CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative" (published 1998–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25. Images presented online by the research project Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) are for the non-commercial use of students, scholars, and the public. Support for the project has been generously provided by the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (ILMS), and by the Max Planck Society (MPS), Oxford and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); network services are from UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities.
• Sjöberg, Åke Waldemar; Leichty, Erle; Tinney, Steve (2024) [2003]. "PSD: The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary" (published 2003–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25. The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD) is carried out in the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. It is funded by the NEH and private contributions. [They] work with several other projects in the development of tools and corpora. [Two] of these have useful websites: the CDLI and the ETCSL.