Erridupizir

Erridupizir

Erridupizir

King of Guti, King of the Four Quarters

Erridupizir (Erridu-pizir) (fl. 2141–2138 BC (Short chronology)) was a Gutian ruler in Sumer. His reign was attested by a royal inscription at the archaeological site for the ancient city-state of Nippur where he called himself: "King of Guti, King of the Four Quarters" Thought to be the "king without a name" on the SKL.[1][2][3] Imta then succeeded Erridupizir.

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After the Akkadian Empire fell to the Gutians, the Lullubians rebelled against Erridupizir, according to the latter's inscriptions:

Ka-Nisba, king of Simurrum, instigated the people of Simurrum and Lullubi to revolt. Amnili, general of [the enemy Lullubi]... made the land [rebel]... Erridu-pizir, the mighty, king of Gutium and of the four quarters hastened [to confront] him... In a single day he captured the pass of Urbillum at Mount Mummum. Further, he captured Nirishuha.

— Inscription R2:226-7 of Erridupizir.[4]

In another inscription he said "the goddess Aštar had stationed troops in Agade".[5]

Preceded by
unknown
 King of Guti, King of the Four Quarters
fl. late 3rd millennium BC		 Succeeded by

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Douglas Frayne, "Gutium" in "Sargonic and Gutian Periods (2234-2113 BC)", RIM The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Volume 2, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 219-230, 1993 ISBN 0-8020-0593-4
  2. [2]
    Mesopotamian Chronicles by Jean-Jacques Glassner Published 2004 ISBN 1-58983-090-3
  3. [3]
    Reallexikon der Assyriologie by Erich Ebling, Bruno Meissner, 1993, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-003705-X
  4. [4]
    Hamblin, William J. (2006). Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC. Routledge. pp. 115–116. ISBN 9781134520626. ISBN 9781134520626
  5. [5]
    van Dijk-Coombes, Renate Marian. “‘Lady of Battle, His Beloved Spouse’: The Relationship between the Body of Inana/Ištar and Her Spheres of War and Love from the Jemdet Nasr to the Old Babylonian Period.” Die Welt Des Orients, vol. 50, no. 1, 2020, pp. 146–76
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