Gulkišar
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Gulkišar (Sumerian: gul-ki-šár; also romanized as Gulkishar) was the sixth king from the First Sealand dynasty. He reigned over a part of Lower Mesopotamia around 1595 BCE, contemporarily with the end of the reign of Samsu-Ditana, the final ruler from the First Dynasty of Babylon. The full territorial extent of his kingdom remains uncertain, though it is assumed that it encompassed the shore of the Persian Gulf, the lower Tigris and Euphrates, as well as part of central Babylonia. It remains a subject of debate among researchers whether he ever controlled Babylon itself. In contrast with many
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- 1600-01-01
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14 sectionsContents
- Name
- Family
- Reign
- Overview
- Controlled territories
- Succession
- Legacy
- ''Epic of Gulkišar''
- ''Kudurru'' of Enlil-nādin-apli
- Glass-making treatise of Il'e-bulluṭa-Marduk
- Other attestations
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
Gulkišar (Sumerian: gul-ki-šár; also romanized as Gulkishar) was the sixth king from the First Sealand dynasty. He reigned over a part of Lower Mesopotamia around 1595 BCE, contemporarily with the end of the reign of Samsu-Ditana, the final ruler from the First Dynasty of Babylon. The full territorial extent of his kingdom remains uncertain, though it is assumed that it encompassed the shore of the Persian Gulf, the lower Tigris and Euphrates, as well as part of central Babylonia. It remains a subject of debate among researchers whether he ever controlled Babylon itself. In contrast with many other members of his dynasty, who are only known from king lists, he continued to be referenced in various genres of texts up to the first millennium BCE. The best-known example is an epic portraying his conflict with Samsu-Ditana, in which he is aided by the goddess Ishtar.
==Name== The name Gulkišar was written gul-ki-šár in cuneiform. A shortened form, Gulki (gul-ki), is known from the Babylonian King List A, though it might only be a result of the last sign being lost. The full form of name can be translated as "raider of the totality", "destroyer of the universe" or "conqueror of the world".