Pabilgagaltuku Explained

Pabilgagaltuku
King of Umma
Reign:	c. 2500  BCE – 2400  BCE
Successor:	Ush, king of Umma
Dynasty:	1st Dynasty of Umma

Pabilgagaltuku, also Pabilgeshgaltuku (pa.bil2.ĝeš-gal-tuku) was Governor (ensi) of Umma, a city-state in Sumer, circa 2450 BCE. He was captured by Ur-Nanshe of Lagash.^[1] His successor was Ush, king of Umma.^[2]

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

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

See also

• List of Mesopotamian dynasties

Notes and References

1. Book: Sallaberger . Walther . Schrakamp . Ingo . History & Philology . 2015 . Walther Sallaberger & Ingo Schrakamp (eds), Brepols . 978-2-503-53494-7 . 74–80 .
2. "Since Ninta (“Uš”) was a contemporary of Eanatum, he is assigned to a generation subsequent to Pabilgaltuku." in Book: Sallaberger . Walther . Schrakamp . Ingo . Philological Data for a Historical Chronology of Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium . 74–75. en.