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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 ]
Mesopotamian royal titles vary in their contents, epithets and order depending on the ruler, dynasty and the length of a monarch's reign. Patterns of arrangement and the choice of titles and epithets usually reflect specific kings, which also meant that later rulers attempting to emulate an earlier great king often aligned themselves with their great predecessors through the titles, epithets ...
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 ...
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.
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 Sumerian King List mentions Lugal-kinishe-dudu as the second king of the dynasty after En-shakansha-ana, attributing to him a fanciful reign of 120 years. [7] [8] The inscriptions of this sovereign which have been discovered show that he retained the power inherited from his predecessor, since he proclaimed himself king of Ur and Kish: [9]