- Enmebaragesi
Enmebaragesi ("Me-Baragesi", "En-Men-Barage-Si", "Enmebaragisi", fl. ca. 2600 BC) was a king of Kish, according to the
Sumerian king list . The list states that he subduedElam , reigned 900 years, and was captured single-handedly by Dumuzid "the fisherman" ofUruk , predecessor ofGilgamesh .He is the earliest ruler on the king list whose name is attested directly from archaeological remains: two
alabaster vase fragments with inscriptions about him found atNippur — where he is said to have built the first temple, according to theSumer ian "Tummal Chronicle". [cite web |url=http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.2.1.3# |title=The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature; ETCSLtranslation : t.2.1.3; The history of the Tummal |accessdate=2008-04-22]He is also mentioned in a section of the "
Epic of Gilgamesh ," "Gilgamesh and Aga", as the father of the Aga who laid siege to Uruk. The king list and the "Tummal Chronicle" both agree with the Epic in making him the father of Aga, last of the dynasty at Kish. Hence the fragments authenticating Enmebaragesi's existence have suggested that Gilgamesh might also have been a historical ruler.References
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* [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.1.1# ETCSL - Translation of "Gilgamesh and Aga"] ( [http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr1811.htm alternate site] )
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