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Enmerkar

Enmerkar

? · Uruk

Enmerkar is remembered as an early king of Uruk, central to the Sumerian 'matter of Aratta.' In 'Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta' he conducts a long-distance duel of challenges with the distant mountain city of Aratta over trade, tribute, and the favor of the goddess Inana — and the poem famously claims that when a message grew too long to memorize, Enmerkar pressed his words into clay and so invented writing. He is listed among the kings of the First Dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List.

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Uruk

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About Uruk

One of the oldest cities of Sumer, sacred to Inanna and Anu, in the southern Iraqi marsh-plain east of the Euphrates. The pin marks the findspot of the excavated tablet.

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