History
Mesannepada
Founder of the First Dynasty of Ur, and among the earliest Mesopotamian kings attested by objects made in his own lifetime rather than by a later list.
Illustration of The Early Dynastic period, not a likeness of any person on this page.
- Standing:
- A real person. Objects, inscriptions or archives made in their own lifetime carry their name.
- Reigned:
- c. 26th century BCE
- City:
- Ur
- Period:
- The Early Dynastic period · c. 2900 to 2350 BCE
What they did
named in contemporary inscriptions, including a bead found far away at Mari, which is the kind of evidence that turns a name in a list into a person in a period.
Sources
The references this entry is drawn from. ETCSL is the scholarly edition for the Sumerian texts; the rest are general references for the archaeology and the dates.
In the same period
Others our chronology places in The Early Dynastic period.
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