List of the kings of Lagaš

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This list contains the kings of the southern Mesopotamian city ​​of Lagaš (around 2550–2110 BC).

1st Dynasty or Ur-Nanše Dynasty (around 2550–2371 BC)

  • Enheĝal (around 2550 BC, viceroy of the Mesalim of Kish)
  • Lugal-šag 4 -engur (around 2520 BC)
  • Ur-Nanše (around 2480 BC, average chronology: 2520 BC)
  • Aja-kurgal (around 2450 BC, average chronology: 2490 BC), son of Ur-Nanšes
  • E-ana-tum (around 2445 BC, average chronology: 2470 BC), son of Aja-kurgal
  • En-ana-tum I. (around 2440 BC, average chronology: 2450 BC), son of Aja-kurgal
  • En-metena (around 2400 BC, average chronology: 2430 BC), son of En-ana-tums I.
  • En-ana-tum II (around 2390 BC, average chronology: 2400 BC), son of En-metenas
  • En-entar-zi (around 2385 BC, middle chronology: 2380 BC), son of En-ana-tums II.
  • Lugal-anda (c. 2384 - c. 2378 BC, average chronology: 2370 BC)
  • Urukagina (approx. 2378 - approx. 2371 BC, average chronology: 2350 BC)
  • Lugal-Zagesi (approx. 2371 - approx. 2347 BC, medium chronology: approx. 2340–2316 BC, also king of Uruk and Umma )

2347 BC (2316 BC according to middle chronology) Lagaš fell to the great empire of Akkad .

Ensis at the time of the Akkad and Gutäer rule

  • Ki-ku-id (around 2260 BC)
  • Engilsa (around 2250 BC)
  • Ur-a (around 2230 BC)
  • Lugalushumgal (around 2200 BC)
  • Puzur mom
  • Ur-Utu
  • Great mom
  • Lu-Baba
  • Lugula
  • Kaku

2nd dynasty

  • Ur-Baba (approx. 2164 – approx. 2144 BC)
  • Gudea (approx. 2144 – approx. 2124 BC)
  • Urningirsu (approx. 2124 – approx. 2118 BC)
  • Pirigme (approx. 2118 – approx. 2117 BC)
  • Ur-Gar (approx. 2118 – approx. 2113 BC)
  • Nammahani (c. 2113 – c. 2110 BC)

2110 BC BC Lagaš fell to the great empire of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietz-Otto Edzard : History of Mesopotamia: From the Sumerians to Alexander the Great. CH Beck, 2004, ISBN 3-406-51664-5 , p. 52 (information on the mean chronology)
  2. ^ William James Hamblin: Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC: Holy Warriors at the Dawn of History. Routledge, 2006, ISBN 0-415-25589-9 , p. 64
  3. ↑ M. Chahin: Before the Greeks. James Clarke & Co., 1996, ISBN 0-7188-2950-6 , p. 18
  4. ↑ Stephen Bertman: Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Infobase Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4346-9 , p. 92