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Hi, some writers of this article would surely be knowledgeable about Kish. I have doubts about parts of that article. Could you guys take a look at it? Thanks,Rich 17:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The E-Ninnu temple had been razed and a fortress built upon its ruins, in the Greek or Seleucid period, some of the bricks found bearing the inscription in Aramaic and Greek of a certain Hadad-nadin-akhe, king of a small Babylonian kingdom.

Anyone know where I can get more information on this? --Iustinus 18:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, according to J. Naveh "The Inscriptions from Failaka and the Lapidary Aramaic Script", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 297. (Feb., 1995), pp. 1-4, such an inscription was found, but at Telloh (i.e. Girsu), not Tell al-Hiba (i.e. Lagash). In the Greek version, the king's name is Αδαδναδιναχης (cf. this page), in the Aramaic it is הדדנדנאח. The Aramaic version can be found in Corpus Inscriptionum Semeticarum II, #72. It doesn't seem to say where to find the Greek version. --Iustinus 19:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User Puzer-Mama: Surely the E-Ninnu was at Tello (Girsu), not at Lagash? Girsu was the religious centre, Ningirsu was Lord of Girsu, and the Gudea cylinders describing the building of the temple were found at Tello. ...actually forget I said that, I checked and it was at Lagash.

Where does ŠIR.BUR.LA come from? It's certainly not on the Oxford site. Sumerophile (talk) 23:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For "Shipurla," here, among other places. In fact, regardless of whether the site is still identified as such, the information that it formerly was should be somewhere on this page, esp. since Sipurla redirects here. -LlywelynII (talk) 07:53, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hm... also, checked the Oxford site. It was there if you clicked through to their link for the composition of the ideograms. -LlywelynII (talk) 08:10, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User Puzer-Mama: I'm also wondering why Shirpurla was an alternative name for Lagash, the one they used in writing (𒉢𒁓𒆷^𒆠, ie ŠIR.BUR.LA^KI). Likewise Umma's alternative name Gishban was the one they used in writing (𒄑𒆵^𒆠). Maybe on their pages the cuneiform name should be given next to the alternative name that it's actually saying phonetically.

Somehow, at some point, this article was filled out with information which ACTUALLY refered to Tello Ngirsu. I fixed the archaeology section to contain the Lagash info. The History and Political History sections still need to be TOTALLY redone. Ploversegg (talk) 07:04, 15 December 2008 (UTC)ploversegg[reply]

So, I returned to clean out and fix a bunch of the 1911 stuff, which was wrong, not surprising since Lagash wasn't even found until circa 1970. Did some general fixup too, though more is needed.Ploversegg (talk) 22:21, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, is it fixed completely? I'm about to use this for a report... Shrekxy64 (talk) 01:38, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What is the source for the names in the lists of the two dynasties of Lagash as they currently appear? Even comparing the first dynasty against the names in the Sumerian text The rulers of Lagash, I find some names listed there not included & names listed here not included. -- llywrch (talk) 22:42, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here is an article from The Washington Post at World's oldest bar? Iraq pub may date to 2700 B.C. (subscription required). Rjluna2 (talk) 18:36, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I mostly fixed up the main article but basically all the sub-articles need work ie all the rulers, Statues of Gudea, Gudea cylinders, and Stele of the Vultures.Ploversegg (talk) 21:35, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]