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King of Adab

Occupation
Activity sectors	Government

List of rulers to have held the title

Early Dynastic IIIa period (c. 2600 – c. 2500 BCE)

Main article: Early Dynastic III

Predynastic Adab (c. 2600 – c. 2500 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Notes and references
Lumma		reigned c. 2600 – c. 2570 BCE (≈30 years)	Unclear succession
	Nin-kisalsi	r. c. 2570 – c. 2550 BCE (≈20 years)
Medurba		r. c. 2550 – c. 2530 BCE (≈20 years)
Epae		r. c. 2530 – c. 2500 BCE (≈30 years)

Early Dynastic IIIb period (c. 2500 – c. 2334 BCE)

Adab kingdom dynasty (c. 2500 – c. 2430 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Notes and references
	Lugaldalu	r. c. 2500 – c. 2485 BCE (≈15 years)	Unclear succession
Paraganedu		r. c. 2485 – c. 2455 BCE (≈30 years)
	E-iginimpa'e	r. c. 2455 – c. 2445 BCE (≈10 years)
Mug-si		r. c. 2445 – c. 2430 BCE (≈15 years)

Adab dynasty of Sumer (c. 2430 – c. 2400 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Notes and references
	Lugal-Anne-Mundu	r. c. 2430 – c. 2400 BCE (≈30 years)	Unclear succession

Adab governorship dynasty (c. 2400 – c. 2270 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Notes and references
Ursangkesh		r. c. 2400 – c. 2395 BCE (≈5 years)	Unclear succession
Enme'annu		r. c. 2395 – c. 2370 BCE (≈25 years)
Hartuashgi		r. c. 2370 – c. 2350 BCE (≈20 years)
Meskigal		r. c. 2350 – c. 2270 BCE (≈80 years)
	Urdumu	Uncertain

References

Sources

Bibliography

Journals

• Marchesi, Gianni (2015). Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo (eds.). "Toward a Chronology of Early Dynastic Rulers in Mesopotamia". History and Philology (ARCANE 3; Turnhout).

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Geography

Language

• Black, Jeremy Allen; Baines, John Robert; Dahl, Jacob L.; Van De Mieroop, Marc (2024) [1997]. Cunningham, Graham; Ebeling, Jarle; Flückiger-Hawker, Esther; Robson, Eleanor; Taylor, Jon; Zólyomi, Gábor (eds.). "ETCSL: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature". Faculty of Oriental Studies (revised ed.). United Kingdom (published 1997–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25. The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.
• Renn, Jürgen; Dahl, Jacob L.; Lafont, Bertrand; Pagé-Perron, Émilie (2024) [1998]. "CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative" (published 1998–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25. Images presented online by the research project Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) are for the non-commercial use of students, scholars, and the public. Support for the project has been generously provided by the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (ILMS), and by the Max Planck Society (MPS), Oxford and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); network services are from UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities.
• Sjöberg, Åke Waldemar; Leichty, Erle; Tinney, Steve (2024) [2003]. "PSD: The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary" (published 2003–2024). Retrieved 2024-01-25. 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.