Enshakushanna

Enshakushanna (Sumerian: ๐’‚—๐’Šฎ๐’Šจ๐’€ญ๐’ˆพ, en-sha3-kush2-an-na),[1] or Enshagsagana,[2] En-shag-kush-ana, Enukduanna, En-Shakansha-Ana, was a king of Uruk around the mid-3rd millennium BC who is named on the Sumerian King List, which states his reign to have been 60 years. He conquered Hamazi, Akkad, Kish, and Nippur, claiming hegemony over all of Sumer.

Enshakushanna
๐’‚—๐’Šฎ๐’Šจ๐’€ญ๐’ˆพ
Fragments in the name of "King Enshakushanna"
(๐’ˆ— (...) ๐’‚—๐’Šฎ๐’Šจ๐’€ญ๐’ˆพ).
Reignc. 2400  BCE
SuccessorLugal-kinishe-dudu
DynastySecond Dynasty of Uruk
Location of Uruk, in the Near East, modern Iraq.

Titulature

He adopted the Sumerian title en ki-en-gi lugal kalam . (๐’‚— ๐’† ๐’‚—๐’„€ ๐’ˆ— ๐’Œฆ),[3][4][5] which may be translated as "lord of Sumer and king of all the land" (which possibly implies "en of the region of Uruk and lugal of the region of Ur"[6]), and could correspond to the later title lugal ki-en-gi ki-uri "King of Sumer and Akkad" that eventually came to signify kingship over Mesopotamia as a whole.

Inscriptions

Several inscriptions of Enshakushanna are known.[7] A dedication tablet in his name is known, now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation:[8]

Dedication tablet by King Enshakushanna, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Erm 14375 (reconstitution).[9]


๐’€ญ๐’‡ฝ๐’†ช๐’Š / ๐’‚—๐’Šฎ๐’Šจ๐’€ญ๐’ˆพ /๐’‚— ๐’† ๐’‚—๐’„€ / ๐’ˆ— ๐’Œฆ๐’ˆฃ / ๐’Œ‰๐’‚๐’‡ท๐’‡ท๐’ˆพ / ๐’‚๐’‰Œ๐’ˆฌ๐’ˆพ๐’†•
DLU2-KU-ra / en-sha3-kush2-an-na / en ki-en-gi / lugal kalam-ma / dumu e2-li-li-na#? / e2-ni mu-na-du3

"For ... (unknown god): Enshakushanna, lord of Sumer and king of all the land, son of Elilina, built the temple for Him."

โ€”โ€‰Dedication tablet by King Enshakushanna, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Erm 14375.[10][11]

The inscription states that his father was "Elilina", possibly King Elulu of Ur.[12]

An inscription reports that "When the gods commanded (Enshakushana), he destroyed Kish... and Akshak" (Enลกakuลกana 1: 6โ€“9).[13]

Succession

He was succeeded in Uruk by Lugal-kinishe-dudu, but the hegemony seems to have passed to Eannatum of Lagash for a time. Lugal-kinishe-dudu was later allied with Entemena, a successor of Eannatum, against Lagash's principal rival, Umma.[14][15]

References
  1. "CDLI-Found Texts". cdli.ucla.edu.
  2. Clay, Albert Tobias; Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat) (1892). The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform texts. Philadelphia : Dept. of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. p. 50.
  3. "CDLI-Archival View". cdli.ucla.edu.
  4. "The Emar Lexical Texts : Part 2 - Composite edition" (PDF). Openaccess.leideuniv.nl. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2008-08-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. See e.g. Glassner, Jean-Jacques, 2000: Les petits etats Mรฉsopotamiens ร  la fin du 4e et au cours du 3e millรฉnaire. In: Hansen, Mogens Herman (ed.) A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen., P.48
  7. "CDLI-Found Texts". cdli.ucla.edu.
  8. "CDLI-Archival View". cdli.ucla.edu.
  9. "CDLI-Archival View". cdli.ucla.edu.
  10. "CDLI-Archival View". cdli.ucla.edu.
  11. "CDLI-Archival View". cdli.ucla.edu.
  12. Gadd, C. J.; Edwards, I. E. S.; Hammond, N. G. L. (1970). The Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 223, 237. ISBN 978-0-521-07051-5.
  13. Niehaus, Jeffrey Jay (2008). Ancient Near Eastern Themes in Biblical Theology. Kregel Academic. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-8254-9354-6.
  14. Hayes, William (1950). Chronology. Cambridge Ancient History. p. 51.
  15. Deena Ragavan, Cuneiform Texts and Fragments in the Harvard Art Museum / Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cuneiform Digital Library Journal, vol. 2010:1, ISSN 1540-8779
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Hadanish of Hamazi		 King of Sumer
c. 26th century BC		 Succeeded by
Lugal-ure or Lugal-kinishe-dudu
Preceded by
Unknown		 Ensi of Uruk
c. 26th century BC


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