Lugalbanda
? · Uruk
Lugalbanda is a hero of Uruk's legendary age, the subject of two Sumerian poems. In the first he falls gravely ill on a campaign against Aratta and is left behind in a mountain cave, where prayer and offerings restore him; in the second he wins the gratitude of the great Anzud bird, which grants him supernatural speed, and he races back to save the stalled army. He appears in the Sumerian King List as a king of Uruk and in tradition as a forebear of Gilgameš.
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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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