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- Also spelled:
- Enmebaragisi
- Also called:
- Me-baragesi
- Flourished:
- c. 2700 bc
- Flourished:
- c.2725 BCE - c.2675 BCE
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Enmebaragesi
king of Kish
Also known as: Enmebaragisi, Me-baragesi
Enmebaragesi (flourished c. 2700 bc) was the king of Kish, in northern Babylonia, and the first historical personality of Mesopotamia.
Enmebaragesi is known from inscriptions about him on fragments of vases of his own time, as well as from later traditions. He was the next-to-last ruler of the first dynasty of Kish. He “despoiled the weapons of the land of Elam,” one inscription asserts. His son, Agga, was the last king of the dynasty, owing to his defeat by Gilgamesh, according to the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh and Agga of Kish.
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