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King of Ur

Occupation
Activity sectors	Government

List of rulers to have held the title

Early Dynastic IIIa period (c. 2600 – c. 2500 BCE)

Main article: Early Dynastic III

Predynastic Ur (c. 2600 – c. 2550 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
	Ur-Pabilsag	reigned c. 2600 – c. 2550 BCE (≈80 years)	Son of A-Imdugud (?) d. c. 2550 BCE

Kalam dynasty of Ur (c. 2550 – c. 2510 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
	Meskiagnun I	r. c. 2550 – c. 2514 BCE (36 years)	Son of Mesannepada (?)
	Akalamdug	r. c. 2514 – c. 2510 BCE (≈4 years)	Son of Meskalamdug (?)
	Meskalamdug	r. c. 2510 BCE (≈1 year)	Son of Akalamdug (?)

Early Dynastic IIIb period (c. 2500 – c. 2334 BCE)

Ur I dynasty (c. 2510 – c. 2300 BCE)

Main article: First dynasty of Ur

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
	Mesannepada	r. c. 2510 – c. 2430 BCE (80 years)	Son of Meskalamdug (?)
	A'annepada	r. c. 2430 BCE (≈1 year)	Son of Mesannepada
	Lugalkinishedudu	r. c. 2430 – c. 2400 BCE (≈30 years)	Unclear succession
	Lugal-kisalsi	r. c. 2400 – c. 2375 BCE (≈25 years)	Son of Lugalkinishedudu
	Elulu	r. c. 2375 – c. 2350 BCE (25 years)	Unclear succession
	Enshakushanna	r. c. 2350 – c. 2348 BCE (≈2 years)	Son of Elulu (?)
	Lugalzagesi	r. c. 2348 – c. 2316 BCE (34 years)	Son of Ukush
Lunanna		r. c. 2316 – c. 2300 BCE (≈16 years)	Unclear succession

Ur III period (c. 2119 – c. 2004 BCE)

Main article: Ur III period

Ur III dynasty (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
	Ur-Nammu	r. c. 2112 – c. 2094 BCE (18 years)	Unclear succession
	Shulgi	r. c. 2094 – c. 2046 BCE (48 years)	Son of Ur-Nammu
	Amar-Suen	r. c. 2046 – c. 2037 BCE (9 years)	Son of Shulgi
	Shu-Suen	r. c. 2037 – c. 2028 BCE (9 years)	Son of Ur-Nammu
	Ibbi-Suen	r. c. 2028 – c. 2004 BCE (28 years)	Son of Shu-Suen

References

Sources

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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Further reading

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.