En-hegal, also Enhengal ( Sumerian: , ), was possibly an ancient ruler of the Sumerian city-state of

Lagash Lagash (cuneiform: LAGAŠKI; Sumerian: ''Lagaš''), was an ancient city state located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Ash Shatrah, Iraq. Lagash (modern Al-Hiba) w ...

. Only one inscription mentioning him is known, the "Tablet of En-hegal", describing a business transaction. If indeed a king of Lagash, it is estimated he would have ruled circa 2570 BCE. The tablet with his name describes a business transaction, in which a possible King En-hegal buys land. He seems to have purchased about 1,000 hectares of land. A tentative translation of the tablet was published by George A. Barton. Tablet of Enhegal.jpg, The Tablet of En-hegal records major land transcations by King En-hegal. File:Enhegal King of Lagash (transcriptionl).jpg, Inscription "For Enhegal King of Lagash", with transcription in standard Sumero-Akkadian

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Lugal Lugal ( Sumerian: ) is the Sumerian term for "king, ruler". Literally, the term means "big man." In Sumerian, ''lu'' "𒇽" is "man" and ''gal'' " 𒃲" is "great," or "big." It was one of several Sumerian titles that a ruler of a city-state coul ...

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* Vojtech Zamarovský, ''Na počiatku bol Sumer'', Mladé letá, 1968 Bratislava * Plamen Rusev, ''Mesalim, Lugal Na Kish: Politicheska Istoriia Na Ranen Shumer (XXVIII-XXVI V. Pr. N. E.), Faber, 2001'' (LanguageBulgarian) Mesalim, Lugal of Kish. Political History of Early Sumer (XXVIII–XXVI century BC.) {{Rulers of Sumer Kings of Lagash 26th-century BC Sumerian kings

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