Urzage

Urzage was an ancient Iraqi ruler. He ruled sometime during the Early Dynastic IIIb period (c. 2500 – c. 2350 BCE); additionally, temp. A'annepada, Entemena, Il, and Ishtup-Ishar. Urzage was preceded by Lugalsilâsi I as the king of Uruk. Urzage may have also been succeeded by Lugalkinishedudu as a great king of Kish.

Urzage
Great King of Kish
Reign	c. 2400 BCE
Predecessor	Eannatum
Successor	Lugalkinishedudu
King of Uruk
Reign	c. 2400 BCE
Predecessor	Lugalsilâsi I
Successor	Lugalkinishedudu
Born	Uruk
Era name and dates Early Dynastic IIIb: c. 2500 – c. 2350 BCE (MC)
Sumerian	𒌨𒍠𒌓𒁺
Dynasty	Second dynasty of Uruk
Religion	Sumerian religion

References

Sources

Bibliography

• Kesecker, N. (2018). "Lugalzagesi: The First Emperor of Mesopotamia?". ARAMAZD Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies. XII (1). Retrieved 2021-05-18.
• Marchesi, Gianni (2015). Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo (eds.). "Toward a Chronology of Early Dynastic Rulers in Mesopotamia". History and Philology (ARCANE 3; Turnhout).

External links

• Sjöberg, Åke Waldemar; Leichty, Erle; Tinney, Steve (2021) [2003]. "Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project" (published 2003–2021). Retrieved 2021-07-30. 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.