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Era name and dates
	Early Dynastic IIIb: c. 2500 – c. 2350 BCE (MC)

Meskalamdug
Meskalamdug
Great King of Kish more...
Reign	c. 2445 – c. 2430 BCE
Predecessor	Eannatum
Successor	Mesannepada
King of Ur
Reign	c. 2445 – c. 2440 BCE
Predecessor	Akalamdug
Successor	Puabi
King of Uruk
Reign	c. 2445 – c. 2440 BCE
Predecessor	Lugalsilâsi I
Successor	Mesannepada
Born	Ur
Era name and dates
Era name and dates
	Early Dynastic IIIb: c. 2500 – c. 2350 BCE (MC)
Sumerian	𒌨𒍠𒌓𒁺
Dynasty	First dynasty of Ur
Religion	Sumerian religion

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Meskalamdug^[a] was an ancient Iraqi ruler.^[1] He ruled sometime during the Early Dynastic IIIa period (c. 2600 – c. 2500 BCE); additionally, temp. Ur-Pabilsag, Parasagnudi, and Medurba. Ursangpae was preceded by Lumma as the king of Uruk. Lugalnamniršumma may have succeeded Ursangpae as king of Uruk.

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^ Sumerian: 𒌨 𒍠 𒌓 𒁺, romanized: urzage; transliterated: ur.zag.𒌓.e₃

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^ Marchesi 2015, p. 139–145.

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Kesecker, N. (2018). "Lugalzagesi: The First Emperor of Mesopotamia?". ARAMAZD Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies. XII (1). Retrieved 2021-05-18.
Marchesi, Gianni (2015). Sallaberger, Walther; Schrakamp, Ingo (eds.). "Toward a Chronology of Early Dynastic Rulers in Mesopotamia". History and Philology (ARCANE 3; Turnhout).

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Sjöberg, Åke Waldemar; Leichty, Erle; Tinney, Steve (2021) [2003]. "Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project" (published 2003–2021). Retrieved 2021-07-30. The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD) is carried out in the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. It is funded by the NEH and private contributions. [They] work with several other projects in the development of tools and corpora. [Two] of these have useful websites: the CDLI and the ETCSL.