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Urzage 𒌨𒍠𒌓𒁺
King of Uruk
Reign	c. 2400 BC
Predecessor	Possibly Lugalsilâsi I
Successor	Possibly Lugal-kinishe-dudu
Dynasty	Second dynasty of Uruk
Religion	Sumerian religion

Urzage (fl. c. 2400 BC) was a Sumerian ruler. He ruled sometime during the Early Dynastic IIIb period (c. 2500 – c. 2350 BCE); additionally, temp. A'annepada, Entemena, Il, and Ishtup-Ishar. Urzage was preceded by Lugalsilâsi I as the king of Uruk. Urzage may have also been succeeded by Lugal-kinishe-dudu as a great king of Kish.

Sources

• Kesecker, N. T. (2018). "Lugalzagesi: The First Emperor of Mesopotamia?". ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 12 (1): 76–96. doi:10.32028/ajnes.v12i1.893. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
• Marchesi, Gianni (2015). "Toward a Chronology of Early Dynastic Rulers in Mesopotamia". In Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo (eds.). ARCANE:Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Vol. III: History and Philology. Brepols. pp. 139–156. ISBN 978-2-503-53494-7.

External links

• Sjöberg, Åke Waldemar; Leichty, Erle; Tinney, Steve (2021) [2003]. "Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project" (published 2003–2021). Retrieved 2021-07-30. The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD) is carried out in the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. It is funded by the NEH and private contributions. [They] work with several other projects in the development of tools and corpora. [Two] of these have useful websites: the CDLI and the ETCSL.