Eannatum, King of Lagash, riding a war chariot (detail of the Stele of the Vultures). His name "Eannatum" (πππΎπΊ) is written vertically in two columns in front of his head. Louvre Museum.
Reign
c. 2500 BC β 2400 BC
Predecessor
Akurgal
Successor
En-anna-tum I
Dynasty
1st Dynasty of Lagash
Eannatum (Sumerian: πππΎπΊΓ.AN.NA-tum2) was a Sumerian Ensi (ruler or king) of Lagash circa 2500β2400 BCE. He established one of the first verifiable empires in history, subduing Elam and destroying the city of Susa, and extending his domain over the rest of Sumer and Akkad.[1] One inscription found on a boulder states that Eannatum was his Sumerian name, while his "Tidnu" (Amorite) name was Lumma.
^Van De Mieroop, Marc (2004). A History of the Ancient Near East: Ca. 3000-323 BC. Wiley. pp. 50β51. ISBN 9780631225522.
Eannatum (Sumerian: πππΎπΊ Γ.AN.NA-tum2) was a Sumerian Ensi (ruler or king) of Lagash circa 2500β2400 BCE. He established one of the first verifiable...
as tribute." His son Akurgal ruled briefly after him. The next ruler, Eannatum (earlier referred to as "Eannadu"), son of Akurgal and grandson of Ur-Nanshe...
the Louvre. The stele was erected as a monument to the victory of king Eannatum of Lagash over Ush, king of Umma. It is the earliest known war monument...
depiction of a khopesh is from the Stele of the Vultures, depicting King Eannatum of Lagash wielding the weapon; this would date the khopesh to at least...
Sumer is one of almost constant warfare. Eventually Sumer was unified by Eannatum. The unification was tenuous and failed to last, as the Akkadians conquered...
by Lugal-kinishe-dudu, but the hegemony seems to have passed briefly to Eannatum of Lagash. Following this period, the region of Mesopotamia seems to have...
river. Urua was one of the lands conquered by King Eannatum of Lagash in Sumer, circa 2500 BCE: Eannatum, the ensi of Lagash, who was granted might by Enlil...
administrative centres. During the Bronze Age, in the 26th century BC, Eannatum of Lagash created a short-lived empire. Later, Lugal-Zage-Si, the priest-king...
was already in existence as early as the reign of Early Dynastic ruler Eannatum of Lagash (circa 2500β2400 BC), who annexed it to his empire. In a large...
archaeologically attested Sumerian king, as well as by a later monarch, Eannatum I of Lagash. Awan was a city-state or possibly a region of Elam whose precise...
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...
father, Ur-Nanshe, founder of the dynasty, and was replaced by his son Eannatum. Very little is known about his reign: only six inscriptions mention it...
Lugal-kinishe-dudu, but the hegemony seems to have passed to Eannatum of Lagash for a time c. 2500 BC Eannatum of Lagash conquered all of Sumer, including Ur, Nippur...
Lagash, which was a major political power, especially during the reign of Eannatum. Kubaba is also not mentioned in any of the discovered inscriptions of...
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