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Aannepada
Aannepada (Aannepadda) was a king of the First Dynasty of Ur in Early Dynastic Sumer, son of the founder Mesannepada, known from a marble tablet found at al-Ubaid in 1922.
Akalamdug
Akalamdug, meaning "The son of the good land", was a Sumerian ruler of Ur around 2600 BC, known only from inscribed cylinder seals in the Royal Cemetery of Ur.
Akurgal
Akurgal of Lagash was an ensi, or city ruler, of Lagash in Early Dynastic Sumer around 2500 BC, the son of Ur-Nanshe and father of the conqueror Eannatum.
Alalgar
Alalgar, also written Alaljar, is the second legendary antediluvian king of Eridu in the Sumerian King List, credited with a 36,000-year reign after Alulim; Berossus' Alaparos may correspond to him.
Alulim
Alulim, also known as Aloros in Berossus, is the legendary antediluvian first king of Eridu in the Sumerian King List, which credits him with a 28,800-year reign.
Anba
Anba is a legendary king of Mari, second ruler of the dynasty in the Sumerian King List, son of Anbu, said to have reigned 17 years.
Anbu (king of Mari)
Anbu, also known as Anbu of Mari, is the first king of the Mari dynasty in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a reign of 30 years.
Ansud
Ansud, also written Ansub or Hanusu, was an Early Dynastic king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, roughly contemporary with Mesannepada of Ur and known from short excavated inscriptions.
Arwium
Arwium, whose name means "male gazelle", is a legendary early king of Kish in the Sumerian King List, son of Mašda, credited with a 720-year reign.
Atab (king of Kish)
Atab is a legendary king of Kish in the First Dynasty of the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a 600-year reign between Zuqāqīp and his son Mašda.
Babum
Babum was a legendary early king of the First Dynasty of Kish, recorded only in the Sumerian King List with a 300-year reign between En-dara-ana and Pu'annum.
Balih
Balih (Baliḥ) is a legendary king of Kish named in the Sumerian King List, where he appears as the son and successor of Etana with a reign of 400 years.
Balulu
Balulu was, per the Sumerian King List, the fourth and last king of the First Dynasty of Ur, credited with a 36-year reign in the mid-25th century BC.
Barsal-nuna
Barsal-nuna is a legendary ruler of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a 1,200-year reign and no contemporary inscriptions.
Bazi (king of Mari)
Bazi is a legendary early ruler of Mari on the Euphrates, listed in the Sumerian King List as a leather worker who reigned 30 years.
Dadasig
Dadasig is a legendary king of Kish, second ruler of the second Kish dynasty in the Sumerian King List, credited with a symbolic 81-year reign.
Dumuzid the Fisherman
Dumuzid the Fisherman, also known as Dumuzi the Fisherman, is a legendary king of Uruk in the Sumerian King List who succeeded Lugalbanda and preceded Gilgamesh.
E-iginimpa'e
E-iginimpa'e was an Early Dynastic Sumerian ruler (ensi) of Adab, dated to around 2400 BC and known from a single votive inscription recording his building of the goddess Dingirmaḫ's Emaḫ temple.
Eannatum
Eannatum (Eanatum) was ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2450 BC, best known for the Stele of the Vultures, his victory monument over rival Umma.
Elulu (king of Ur)
Elulu of Ur was, according to the Sumerian King List, the third king of the First Dynasty of Ur, assigned a 25-year reign between Meskiagnunna and Balulu.
En-me-nuna
En-me-nuna is a legendary early ruler of Kish named in the Sumerian King List, fifth of the First Dynasty, assigned a 660-year reign and succeeded by his son Melem-Kish.
En-men-dur-ana
En-men-dur-ana, also written Enmeduranki, is the legendary seventh antediluvian king of Sippar in the Sumerian King List, a figure later linked to the biblical patriarch Enoch.
En-men-gal-ana
En-men-gal-ana (Sumerian en-me-en-gal-an-na; Enmegalanna) is a legendary antediluvian king of Bad-tibira in the Sumerian King List, second between En-men-lu-ana and Dumuzid, with a mythical reign of 28,800 years.
En-men-lu-ana
En-men-lu-ana is the third legendary antediluvian king in the Sumerian King List, a ruler of Bad-tibira credited with a 43,200-year reign and known only from later copies of the list.
En-nun-tarah-ana
En-nun-tarah-ana is the ninth king of the First Dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, credited with an 8-year reign and known from no contemporary inscription.
En-sipad-zid-ana
En-sipad-zid-ana is the legendary antediluvian king of Larak in the Sumerian King List, the third of five pre-Flood cities, credited with a reign of 28,800 years that scholars read as a sexagesimal construct.
Enakalle
Enakalle, also written Enakale or Enakalli, was ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Umma around 2500 BC, who made peace with Eannatum of Lagash and was father of Ur-Lumma.
Enannatum I
Enannatum I, also written Enanatum I, was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2425–2420 BC, brother and successor of Eannatum and father of Entemena.
Enannatum II
Enannatum II was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2390 BC, son and successor of Entemena and the last king of its First Dynasty.
Enbi-Ishtar
Enbi-Ishtar (Enbi-Ištar) was a king of Kish in southern Mesopotamia in the mid-third millennium BC, captured by Enshakushanna of Uruk, who destroyed Kish and dedicated its spoil to Enlil at Nippur.