The genealogy of the royal family of Ur, which has been tentatively established by Frayne (1997) and Dahl (2007: 31), assigns more than twenty sons to Šulgi. In the sources they usually appear under the impersonal title dumu lugal “son of the king.” Many of Šulgi’s sons served as generals, especially at Uruk, but most of the princes never held important military positions or civil offices and are only attested a few times in tablets from Puzriš-Dagān and Girsu-Lagaš. The aim of the present paper is to draw up a biographical note on one of the best documented of them, namely Etel-pū-Dagān, by using the available data from the Puzriš-Dagān texts and the so-called messenger texts from Girsu-Lagaš.
Prince Etel-pū-Dagān, Son of Šulgi
Palmiro Notizia
Primo
2013-01-01
Abstract
The genealogy of the royal family of Ur, which has been tentatively established by Frayne (1997) and Dahl (2007: 31), assigns more than twenty sons to Šulgi. In the sources they usually appear under the impersonal title dumu lugal “son of the king.” Many of Šulgi’s sons served as generals, especially at Uruk, but most of the princes never held important military positions or civil offices and are only attested a few times in tablets from Puzriš-Dagān and Girsu-Lagaš. The aim of the present paper is to draw up a biographical note on one of the best documented of them, namely Etel-pū-Dagān, by using the available data from the Puzriš-Dagān texts and the so-called messenger texts from Girsu-Lagaš.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
