{{Infobox royalty | name = Tura-Dagan<br>{{nobold|{{cuneiform|π’Œ…π’Šπ’€­π’•π’ƒΆ}}}} | image = Statue of governor of Tura Dagan, Mari. Originally from Mari, found in Babylon. 1894-1594 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul.jpg | caption = Statue of Tura-Dagan, Shakkanakku of Mari. Originally from Mari (c. 2072–2050 BC).<br />[[Museum of the Ancient Orient]], [[Istanbul]].<ref name="ReferenceB">Per [[Museum of the Ancient Orient]] item notice</ref> | death_date = c. 2050 BC | spouse = | issue = [[Puzur-Ishtar]] | father = [[Apil-kin]] | reign = c. 2072 - c. 2050 BC | predecessor = [[Ili-Ishar]] | successor = [[Puzur-Ishtar]] | dynasty = [[Shakkanakku]] dynasty | succession = [[List of kings of Mari|King of Mari]] }} {{Location map | Near East | width = 260px | float = right | border = | caption = Location of Mari | alt = | relief = yes | AlternativeMap = | overlay_image = | label = Mari | label_size = | position = | background = | mark = | marksize = | link = | lat_deg = 34.549444 | lon_deg = 40.89 }} '''Tura-Dagan''' ({{cuneiform|π’Œ…π’Šπ’€­π’•π’ƒΆ}}, ''Tu-ra-<sup>[[Dingir|D]]</sup>da-gan''; died {{Circa}} 2050 BC) was a ruler of the city of [[Mari, Syria|Mari]], northern [[Mesopotamia]] during the Ur III period. He was son of [[Apil-kin]], and brother of [[Ili-Ishar]].<ref name="GL">{{cite book |last1=Leick |first1=Gwendolyn |title=Who's Who in the Ancient Near East |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-78796-8 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAGFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 |language=en}}</ref> He held the title of [[Shakkanakku]] (military governor), which was borne by all the princes of a dynasty who reigned at [[Mari, Syria|Mari]] in the late third millennium and early second millennium BC. These kings were the descendants of the military governors appointed by the kings of [[Akkad (city)|Akkad]].<ref>Louvre. "The Statuette of Iddi-Ilum," Department of Near Eastern Antiquities: Mesopotamia. Accessed December 1, 2014. http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/statuette-iddi-ilum</ref> He was contemporary of the [[Third Dynasty of Ur]], and probably their vassal.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Unger |first1=Merrill F. |title=Israel and the Aramaeans of Damascus: A Study in Archaeological Illumination of Bible History |date=2014 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-62564-606-4 |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qw6vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 |language=en}}</ref>

==Family== He was the son of Apil-kin, and younger brother of [[Ili-Ishar]]. His sister [[Taram-Uram]] had married [[Shulgi]] of [[Third Dynasty of Ur|Ur]].

He had a son, who succeeded him, named [[Puzur-Ishtar]].

== Attestations == ===Inscriptions === The [[Museum of the Ancient Orient]] has a statue of Tura-Dagan, but it is headless and the inscription is heavily damaged.<ref name="ReferenceB">Per [[Museum of the Ancient Orient]] item notice</ref> Tura-Dagan is also known from various seals and dynastic lists.<ref name="GL" />

A statue of Puzur-Ishtar is known from the [[Royal Palace of Mari]], now in the [[Museum of the Ancient Orient]] in [[Istanbul]], with an inscription on the hem of the statue’s skirt mentioning his father Tura-Dagan.<ref>Gates, Henriette-Marie. "The Palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari." ''The Biblical Archaeologist'' 47 (June.,1984): 70-87.</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Gates, "The Palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari," 70-87.</ref>

The inscription on the hem of the statue reads:

{{blockquote|"Tura-Dagan, prince of the country of Mari, [[Puzur-Ishtar]], the prince, his son, to god [...], lord [...], god [....], for their life, (have offered this statue). For the one who deletes this dedication, may gods Ninni, Dagan and Enki, master of [...], tear down his foundation and destroy his progeny together with his territory"|Puzur-Ishtar inscription (hem).<ref name="EN" />}}

<gallery widths="500px" heights="150px" perrow="4"> File:Puzur-Ishtar statue cuneiform inscription.jpg|Puzur-Ishtar statue inscription (hem)<ref name="EN">For transcript and translation: {{cite journal |last1=Nassouhi |first1=Essad |title=Statue d'un dieu de Mari, vers 2225 av. J.-C. |journal=Archiv fΓΌr Orientforschung |date=1926 |volume=3 |pages=112–113 |jstor=41662864 |issn=0066-6440}}</ref> </gallery> <gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4"> File:Tura-Dagan Shakkanakku Mari-ki.jpg|{{center|"Tura-Dagan Governor of Mari"<br />{{cuneiform|π’Œ…π’Šπ’€­π’•π’ƒΆ π’„Šπ’€΄ π’ˆ π’Œ·π’† }}<br />''Tura-Dagan Shakkanakku Mari-ki''<br />on the Statue of [[Puzur-Ishtar]], his son and successor.<br />[[Ancient Orient Museum]], [[Istanbul]].}} </gallery>

{{s-start}} {{s-hou||||2050 BCE||name=Tura-Dagan of [[Mari, Syria|Mari]]}} {{S-reg}} {{s-bef | before = [[Ili-Ishar]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[List of kings of Mari|King of Mari]] | years = c. 2072 - c. 2050 BC }} {{s-aft | after = [[Puzur-Ishtar]] }} {{s-end}}

== References == {{reflist}} {{Istanbul Archaeology Museums}}

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