E-iginimpa'e (; )
was a
Sumer
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ian ruler (
ensi) of the
Mesopotamia
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n city of
Adab. He may have succeeded another ensi known as
Mug-si.
He is known from several inscriptions, most of them located in the
Oriental Institute Museum,
Chicago
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, with one tablet in the
State Hermitage Museum
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,
Saint Petersburg
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. He was a contemporary of
Lugal-zage-si #REDIRECT Lugal-zage-si
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as several land transactions are recorded between the two.
One of his tablets reads, dedicated to goddess Digirmah or Ensimah (, equivalent of
Martu) reads:
E-iginimpa'e was "ensi-GAR", the highest civil office in Adab.
References
{{Rulers of Sumer
25th-century BC Sumerian kings
24th-century BC Sumerian kings
Kings of Adab
3rd-millennium BC births
3rd-millennium BC deaths