Pabilgagaltuku

Pabilgagaltuku
๐’‰บ๐’‰ˆ๐’…๐’ƒฒ๐’Œ‡
King of Umma
Reignc. 2450 BC
SuccessorPossibly Ush
Dynasty1st Dynasty of Umma
Location of Umma

Pabilgagaltuku, also Pabilgeshgaltuku (๐’‰บ๐’‰ˆ๐’…๐’ƒฒ๐’Œ‡, pa.bil2.ฤeลก-gal-tuku; fl.โ€‰c. 2450 BC)[1] was Governor (ensi) of Umma, a city-state in Sumer. He was captured by Ur-Nanshe of Lagash.[2] His successor may have been Ush.[3]

Pabilgagaltuku is known from an inscription of Ur-Nanshe, in which Ur-Nanshe claims that he defeated Umma and captured Pabilgagaltuku:

pabilgax (pa.bil2.ฤeลก)-gal-tuku ensi2 umma(geลก.kuลกu2)ki mu-dab5
โ€œHe seized Pabilgagaltuku, the governor of Umma.โ€

โ€”โ€ŠInscription of Ur-Nanshe.[1]

Pabilgagaltuku may also be mentioned in the Stele of the Vultures, as having been vanquished in the past by Ur-Nanshe.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b c FAOS 5/1 Urn. 51 = RIME 1.9.1.6.b rev. iv 5-8: in Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo. Philological Data for a Historical Chronology of Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium. pp. 74โ€“75.
  2. ^ Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo (2015). History & Philology (PDF). Walther Sallaberger & Ingo Schrakamp (eds), Brepols. pp. 74โ€“80. ISBN 978-2-503-53494-7.
  3. ^ "Since Ninta (โ€œUลกโ€) was a contemporary of Eanatum, he is assigned to a generation subsequent to Pabilgaltuku." in Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo. Philological Data for a Historical Chronology of Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium. pp. 74โ€“75.