Tirigan (''
fl.'' late 3rd millennium BCE, , ''ti-ri₂-ga-a-an'') was the 19th and last
Gutian ruler in
Sumer mentioned on the "''
Sumerian King List''" (''SKL''). According to the ''SKL'': Tirigan was the successor of
Si'um
Si'um, also Siium, or Sium (, ''si-u-um'', ''fl.'' late 3rd millennium BCE) was the 18th Gutian ruler of the Gutian Dynasty of Sumer mentioned on the "''Sumerian King List''" (''SKL''). According to the ''SKL'': Si'um was the successor of Yarlaga ...
. Tirigan ruled for 40 days before being defeated by
Utu-hengal
Utu-hengal ( sux, , ), also written Utu-heg̃al, Utu-heĝal, and sometimes transcribed as Utu-hegal, Utu-hejal, Utu-Khengal, was one of the first native kings of Sumer after two hundred years of Akkadian and Gutian rule, and was at the origin ...
of
Uruk
Uruk, also known as Warka or Warkah, was an ancient city of Sumer (and later of Babylonia) situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates River on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.Harm ...
, ''c.'' 2050 BC.
''The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature''
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Sumerian King List
According to the ''Sumerian King List'':
Victory stele of Utu-hengal
Tirigan is mentioned extensively in the victory stele of his nemesis and successor, Utu-hengal
Utu-hengal ( sux, , ), also written Utu-heg̃al, Utu-heĝal, and sometimes transcribed as Utu-hegal, Utu-hejal, Utu-Khengal, was one of the first native kings of Sumer after two hundred years of Akkadian and Gutian rule, and was at the origin ...
(also known as Utu-Khegal and Utu-Hegal):
See also
* History of Sumer
The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty o ...
* Sumerian King List
* List of Mesopotamian dynasties
The history of Mesopotamia extends from the Lower Paleolithic period until the establishment of the Caliphate in the late 7th century AD, after which the region came to be known as Iraq. This list covers dynasties and monarchs of Mesopotamia up ...
* Chronology of the ancient Near East
References
21st-century BC Sumerian kings
Gutian dynasty of Sumer
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