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Meskiagnun, also Mesh-ki-ang-Nanna (Sumerian: ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฃ, Meskiagฬnun [mes-ki-aลโ-nun], also ๐ญ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐พ, Meskiagฬnunna [D mes-ki-aลโ-nun-na]; fl. c. 2550 BC), was the fourth lugal or king of the First Dynasty of Ur, according to the Sumerian King List, which states he ruled for 36 years. [1]
The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC.
Unlike his successors, Meshkiangasher is not found in any poem or hymn besides the King list. His reign has long been suspected to be a fabrication during the Ur III period [3] due to the Sumerian-Akkadian hybrid structure of his name, the element MES, which occurs in historical royal names of Ur, and the tradition about his disappearance. [4]
The Sumerian King List (SKL) records a dynasty of six kings from Mari enjoying hegemony between the dynasty of Adab and the dynasty of Kish. [1] The names of the Mariote kings were damaged on the early copies of the list, [2] and those kings were correlated with historical kings that belonged to the second kingdom. [3]
The etched carnelian beads in this necklace from the Royal Cemetery dating to the First Dynasty of Ur were probably imported from the Indus Valley. British Museum. [7]The artifacts found in the royal tombs of the dynasty show that foreign trade was particularly active during this period, with many materials coming from foreign lands, such as Carnelian likely coming from the Indus or Iran ...
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The existence of a "King Meskalamdug" is known for certain, from a seal discovered at the Royal Cemetery of Ur (cylinder seal U 11751, discovered in the tomb of a queen, PG 1054), [4] which bears the title Meskalamdug Lugal (๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐) "King Meskalamdug".
Meskigal (Sumerian: ๐ฉ๐ ๐ ๐ท, mes-ki-gฬalโ-la) [1] was a Sumerian ruler of the Mesopotamian city of Adab in the mid-3rd millennium BCE, probably circa 2350 BCE. [2] He was contemporary with Lugal-zage-si and the founder of the Akkadian Empire, Sargon of Akkad.