Lamgi-Mari

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Lamgi-Mari (reading of the name controversial, today often also Isqi-Mari ) was an early king of Mari . A statue of him was found in the Ištar temple. Their inscription made it possible to identify the site of Tell Hariri with the kingdom of Mari, which is known from texts.

literature

  • Ignace J. Gelb , Burkhart Kienast: The old Akkadian royal inscriptions of the third millennium BC Chr. (= Freiburg ancient oriental studies. 7). Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-04248-2 , p. 15.