Nûr-Mêr, also Niwâr-Mêr ( ''ni-wa-ar-me-er''; died 2148 BC)
was a ruler of the city of
Mari, one of the military governors known as ''
Shakkanakku'' in northern
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq and forms the eastern geographic boundary of ...
, in the later period of
Akkad.
According to the dynastic lists, he ruled for 5 years, after his father
Ishma-Dagan, and was the fourth Shakkanakku ruler.
Nûr-Mêr was probably contemporary with the
Akkadian rulers
Naram-Sin or
Shar-Kali-Sharri
Shar-Kali-Sharri (, ''Dingir, DShar-ka-li-Sharri''; died 2193 BC) reigned c. 2218–2193 BC (middle chronology) as the ruler of Akkadian Empire, Akkad. In the early days of cuneiform scholarship the name was transcribed as "Shar-Gani-sharri". In ...
.
He was succeeded by his brother
Ishtup-Ilum as Shakkanakku of Mari.
He is also known from four identical inscriptions on bronze votive tablets:
The goddess mentioned might have been the Syrian
Shalash
Shalash (Šalaš) was a Syrian goddess best known as the wife of Dagan, the head of the pantheon of the middle Euphrates area. She was already worshiped in Ebla and Tuttul in the third millennium BCE, and later her cult is attested in Mari as w ...
, the wife of
Dagan, rather than Mesopotamian Ninhursag,
as her name was commonly written logographically as
dNIN.HUR.SAG.GA in Mari in the
Old Babylonian period.
References
{{Rulers of Sumer
22nd-century BC monarchs
Kings of Mari
3rd-millennium BC births
22nd-century BC deaths