Utuhegal

Utuhegal
(reigned ca. 2123-2113 b.c.)
   A king of the Sumerian city of Uruk during the period following the decline of the Akkadian Empire, when Uruk enjoyed a brief period of considerable power in southern Mesopotamia. Utuhegal became famous for playing a major role in a coalition of local rulers who drove out the Guti, tribal marauders from the Zagros Mountains who had been harassing several of the Sumerian cities. Not long afterward, however, one of his associates, perhaps a general he commanded - Ur-Nammu - usurped his authority and established the dynasty and empire now referred to as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur-III. Some evidence suggests that Utuhegal eventually met his end in a drowning accident while he was supervising the building of an irrigation canal.

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