The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

HISTORICAL PHASES AND KINGS OF

THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC



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Table 0.2

Dates BC(all dates Historical phase including kings (if known)
are approximate)

3150 / 3100 – 2900 Jamdat Nasr Period (‘Uruk III’)

2900 – 2600 Early Dynastic I–II

2600 – 2500 Early Dynastic IIIa
2500 – 2350 Early Dynastic IIIb

Early Dynastic rulers in selection

Ur I Lagasˇ I Proposed ED IIIa/IIIb?

Synchronisms

Meskalamdug Ur-Nansˇe Ur-Nansˇe and ED IIIb begins

‘king of Kisˇ’ Akurgal = either with

Akurgal Meskalamdug Ur-Nansˇe of Lagasˇ

Akalamdug and Akalamdug or with

‘king of Ur’ Eannatum Mesanepada of

(Meskalamdug’s Mesanepada of Ur and Eannatum

son?) Enannatum I Ur = Eannatum of Lagasˇ

of Lagasˇ

Mesanepada Enmetena

‘king of Ur’, son

of Meskalamdug Enannatum II

Aanepada, ‘king Enentarzid

of Ur’ son of

Mesanepada Lugalanda