Shulgi , roi de la IIIe dynastie d’Ur, fils d’Ur-Nammu, règne de 2094 à 2047 av. J.-C. sur le pays de Sumer.
Il se rapproche de la conception agadéenne de l’empire en adoptant le titre de « roi des quatre nations » et en accolant le signe divin à son nom. Il entreprend la réorganisation politique, militaire et administrative du royaume. La deuxième partie de son règne est occupée à une politique territoriale plus active, notamment vers l’Élam, le Zagros et le Kurdistan. Il meurt en -2047, soit assassiné, soit victime d’une épidémie. Amar-Sîn lui succède.
“Like Enki, king of the abzu, I am successful in finding solutions, and am wise in words.”
In Debate between Bird and Fish, early 2nd millennium BCE. Text online http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr535.htm at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
In Debate between Bird and Fish, early 2nd millennium BCE. Text online http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr535.htm at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
About the fortress Igi-hursaja.
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about work on the fortress Igi-hursanga http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3108.htm
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about work on the fortress Igi-hursanga http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3108.htm
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about work on the fortress Igi-hursanga http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3108.htm
Variante: The master builder has taken up his work. Where substantial work has been neglected, let him return to it. He is to reiforce and rebuild it.
