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King of Uruk

Occupation
Activity sectors	Government

List of rulers to have held the title

Early Dynastic I period (c. 2900 – c. 2700 BCE)

Main article: Early Dynastic I

Uruk I dynasty (c. 2750 – c. 2700 BCE)

Main article: First Dynasty of Uruk

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
	Gilgamesh	reigned c. 2750 – c. 2700 BCE (≈50 years)	Son of Lugalbanda (?)

Early Dynastic II period (c. 2700 – c. 2600 BCE)

Uruk II dynasty (c. 2700 – c. 2348 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
Lumma		r. c. 2700 – c. 2600 BCE (≈100 years)	Unclear succession
Ursangpae		r. c. 2600 – c. 2500 BCE (≈100 years)
Lugalnamniršumma		r. c. 2500 – c. 2455 BCE (≈45 years)
Lugalsilâsi I		r. c. 2455 – c. 2445 BCE (≈10 years)
	Meskalamdug	r. c. 2445 – c. 2440 BCE (≈5 years)	Son of Akalamdug (?)
	Mesannepada	r. c. 2440 – c. 2435 BCE (≈5 years)	Son of Meskalamdug (?)
Urzage		r. c. 2435 – c. 2430 BCE (≈5 years)	Unclear succession
	Lugalkinishedudu	r. c. 2430 – c. 2400 BCE (≈30 years)
	Lugal-kisalsi	r. c. 2400 – c. 2365 BCE (≈35 years)	Son of Lugalkinishedudu
Urni		r. c. 2358 – c. 2356 BCE (≈2 years)	Unclear succession
Lugalsilâsi II		r. c. 2356 – c. 2350 BCE (≈6 years)
	Enshakushanna	r. c. 2350 – c. 2348 BCE (≈2 years)	Son of Elulu (?)

Early Dynastic III period (c. 2600 – c. 2334 BCE)

Uruk III dynasty (c. 2348 – c. 2300 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
	Lugalzagesi	r. c. 2348 – c. 2316 BCE (≈32 years)	Son of Ukush
Girimesi		r. c. 2316 – c. 2300 BCE (≈16 years)	Unclear succession

Ur III period (c. 2119 – c. 2004 BCE)

Main article: Ur III period

Uruk V dynasty (c. 2119 – c. 2112 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
	Utu-hengal	r. c. 2119 – c. 2112 BCE (7 years, 6 months, and 5 days)	Unclear succession

Isin-Larsa period (c. 2025 – c. 1763 BCE)

Main article: Isin-Larsa period

Uruk VI dynasty (c. 1872 – c. 1794 BCE)

Portrait or inscription	Ruler	Approx. date and length of reign	Succession and death details	Comments, notes, and references
	Suen-kashid	r. c. 1865 – c. 1833 BCE (≈32 years)	Unclear succession
	Suen-gamil	r. c. 1827 – c. 1824 BCE (≈3 years)	Son of Suen-iribam

References

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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.