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"the king of Uruk, who built Uruk" r. c. 2750, c. 2730 BC (420 years) Said to have reigned for at least fifty years in the tale of Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird; Said to have invented writing and to have besieged Aratta for up to a year in the legend of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 ... It is dominated by a series of temples built on a high terrace after the Ubayd period. ... a bearded man with a headband who is ...
Enmerkar [a] [b] (fl. c. 2750 BC) was an ancient Sumerian ruler to whom the construction of the city of Uruk and a 420-year reign [c] was attributed. According to literary sources, he led various campaigns against the land of Aratta.
The history of Sumer spans through the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE.
Sumerian dignitary, Uruk, circa 3300-3000 BCE. National Museum of Iraq. [3] [4] Fragment of a Bull Figurine from Uruk, c. 3000 BCEVotive sculptures in the form of small animal figurines have been found at Uruk, using a style mixing naturalistic and abstract elements in order to capture the spiritual essence of the animal, rather than depicting an entirely anatomically accurate figure.
An-am (AN-am 3) (also Dingiram or Anam) was a ruler of the Old Babylonian period city of Uruk.He took the titles of "Shepard of Uruk" and "Army Chief of Uruk". An-am is known to be the father of the succeeding ruler Irdanene from the latter's year name "... brought a statue in gold representing Dingiram his father into the temple of Nanaia". [1]
Articles relating to the Uruk period (ca. 4000-3100 BC), which existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age period in the history of Mesopotamia, after the Ubaid period and before the Jemdet Nasr period. Named after the Sumerian city of Uruk, this period saw the emergence of urban life in Mesopotamia and the Sumerian ...
Part of the front of a Babylonian temple to Ishtar in Uruk, built c. 1415 BCE, during the Kassite Period (c. 1600—1155 BCE). [146] It has been argued in the past that it was first dedicated to Anu, and only later to Inanna, [147] but this view is no longer regarded as plausible. [148]