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"Dudu, Great King of Akkad" (πΊπΊ ππ π ππ΅ππ , Du-du da-num lugal a-ga-de3(ki)) on the Dudu alabaster vase. King Dudu of Agade, complete alabaster vase inscription (transcription in standard Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform ): "Dudu, the Great king of Akkad, for Nergal of Apiak has dedicated this".
The king of Akkad (Akkadian: šar mΔt Akkadi, lit. ' king of the land of Akkad ' [1]) was the ruler of the city of Akkad and its empire, in ancient Mesopotamia.In the 3rd millennium BC, from the reign of Sargon of Akkad to the reign of his great-grandson Shar-Kali-Sharri, the Akkadian Empire represented the dominant power in Mesopotamia and the first known great empire.
Dudu of Akkad Shu-turul ( Shu-durul , πππ , shu-tur2-ul3 ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (also Šu-Turul) was the last king of the Akkadian Empire , ruling for 15 years according to the Sumerian king list . [ 3 ]
The Akkadian Empire (/ Ι Λ k eΙͺ d i Ιn /) [2] was the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer.Centered on the city of Akkad (/ Λ æ k æ d /) [3] and its surrounding region, the empire united Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule and exercised significant influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Anatolia, sending military ...
He adopted the Sumerian title en ki-en-gi lugal kalam.(π π ππ π π¦), [5] [6] [7] 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" [8]), 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 ...
The cuneiform du sign, also kup, and sumerograms DU and GUB, is a common-use sign of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the 1350 BC Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. In the Akkadian language for forming words, it can be used syllabically for: du, or kup (and ku, up); also alphabetically for letters d, u, k, or p.
The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC.
Vase inscription of Lugal-kigine-dudu (ππ πΊπππ, lugal-ki-gin-ne 2-duβ-duβ), reconstruction of the text, and some fragments.[3] [4]Lugal-kinishe-dudu (ππ ππ ππ, lugal-ki-ni-šeβ-duβ-duβ) [5] also Lugal-kiginne-dudu (ππ πΊπππ, lugal-ki-gin-ne 2-duβ-duβ), [6] was a King and of Uruk and Ur who lived towards the end of the 25th century ...