Kur-Ishshak

Kur-Ishshak
The Weld-Blundell Prism (W-B 444) copy of the Sumerian King List (SKL).
King of Sumer
Reign	fl. c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC
Predecessor	...Lu (?)
Successor	Susuda (?)
King of Elam
Reign	fl. c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC
Predecessor	...Lu (?)
Successor	Hishutash (?)
King of Awan
Reign	fl. c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC
Predecessor	...Lu (?)
Successor	Hishutash (?)
Born	Awan
Era name and dates First Paleo-Elamite period: c. 2400 – c. 2015 BC
Sumerian	𒆪𒌌[1]
Dynasty	Awan dynasty
Religion	Elamite religion

Kur-Ishshak[a] was the third king of the Awan dynasty and is said on the Sumerian King List (SKL) to have been the third Elamite king to exercise the kingship of Awan over all of Sumer.[2] He probably reigned sometime in the first Paleo-Elamite period (c. 2400 – c. 2015 BC).[3][4][2][2][5]^[failed verification] Additionally; he could have possibly been the same third king (Ukku-Tanhish) from Awan said on the Susanian Dynastic List to exercise the kingship over all of Elam.[6][4] According to the SKL: he was preceded by ...Lu (possibly Tata named only on the Susanian Dynastic List) and succeeded by Susuda of Kish (named only on the SKL). However, the Susanian Dynastic List states that the third king was succeeded by Hishutash.

See also

• Mesopotamia
• Ancient Near East

References

Notes

1. Sumerian: 𒆪𒌌, romanized: ku-ul-x; transliterated: ku.ul.x; anglicized: Ku-u [l- . . . ]; also: Kul[...]; alternatively: Kur-Ishshak (Sjöberg, Leichty & Tinney 2024)

Citations

1. Sjöberg, Leichty & Tinney 2024.
2. Lendering 2006.
3. sfn & Stolper 1987. sfn error: no target: CITEREFsfnStolper1987 (help)
4. Kessler 2021.
5. Ir 2015b.
6. Stolper 1987.

Sources

Bibliography

• Ir, E (2015b). "SUSA ii. HISTORY DURING THE ELAMITE PERIOD". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Hansman, J. (1985). "Anshan". Encyclopædia Iranica. 1. Vol. II. pp. 103–107.
• Hinz, W. (1972). Written at United Kingdom. The Lost World of Elam: Re-creation of a Vanished Civilization. Translated by Barnes, J. University of California: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 9780283978630.
• Jacobsen, T. (1939). The Sumerian King List (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Oriental Institute. ISBN 9780226622736.
• Legrain, L. (1922). Historical Fragments. Vol. XIII. United States: University of Pennsylvania Museum. ISBN 9780598776341.
• Stolper, M. (1987). "AWAN". Encyclopædia Iranica. 2. Vol. III. pp. 113–114.
• Vallat, F. (1998). "ELAM i. The history of Elam". Encyclopædia Iranica. 3. Vol. VIII. pp. 301–313.

Journals

• Scheil, V. (1931). "Dynasties Élamites d'Awan et de Simaš". Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale. 28 (1). Presses Universitaires de France: 1–46. ISSN 0373-6032. JSTOR 23283945.

Web resources

• Dahl, J. (2012-07-24). "Rulers of Elam". cdliwiki: Educational pages of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI).
• Jacobsen, T. (1939b). Zólyomi, G.; Black, J.; Robson, E.; Cunningham, G.; Ebeling, J. (eds.). "Sumerian King List". ETCSL. Translated by Glassner, J.; Römer, W.; Zólyomi, G. (revised ed.). United Kingdom: Oxford.
• Kessler, P. (2021). "Kingdoms of Iran - Elam / Haltamtu / Susiana". The History Files. Kessler Associates.
• Langdon, S. (1923). "W-B 444". CDLI. Ashmolean Museum.
• Lendering, J. (2006). "Sumerian King List". Archived from the original on 2024-07-23.

Further reading

• Cameron, George (1936). History of Early Iran (Thesis). United States: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780608165332.
• Diakonoff, I. (1956). История Мидии От Древнейших Времен До Конца IV Века До Н.э. [The history of Media from ancient times to the end of the 4th century BCE] (in Russian). Moscow and Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences.
• Ir, E (2015a). "SUSA". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Majidzadeh, Y. (1991). تاريخ و تمدن ايلام [History and civilization of Elam] (in Persian). Iran: University of Tehran Press.
• Majidzadeh, Y. (1997). تاريخ و تمدن بين النهرين [History and civilization of Mesopotamia] (in Persian). Vol. 1. Iran: University of Tehran Press. ISBN 9789640108413.

Language

• Black, Jeremy Allen; Baines, John Robert; Dahl, Jacob L.; Van De Mieroop, Marc (2024). Cunningham, Graham; Ebeling, Jarle; Flückiger-Hawker, Esther; Robson, Eleanor; Taylor, Jon; Zólyomi, Gábor (eds.). "ETCSL: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature". Faculty of Oriental Studies (revised ed.). United Kingdom. The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.
• Renn, Jürgen; Dahl, Jacob L.; Lafont, Bertrand; Pagé-Perron, Émilie (2024). "CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative". Images presented online by the research project Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) are for the non-commercial use of students, scholars, and the public. Support for the project has been generously provided by the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (ILMS), and by the Max Planck Society (MPS), Oxford and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); network services are from UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities.
• Sjöberg, Åke Waldemar; Leichty, Erle; Tinney, Steve (2024). "PSD: The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary". 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.

Preceded by ...Lu (?)	King of Sumer fl. c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC	Succeeded by Susuda (?)
	King of Elam fl. c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC	Succeeded by Hishutash (?)
	King of Awan fl. c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC