{{Infobox royalty | name = Uhub<br>{{nobold|{{cuneiform|𒌑𒄸}}}} | image = Uhub vase inscription.jpg | image_size = 250 | caption = Vase fragments of Uhub. The top one has the fragmentary inscription ''Zababa Uhub Ensi Kish-ki'' ("God Zababa, Uhub Governor of Kish", in the British Museum (BM 129401). The second fragment, from a different vase, mentions "Pussusu conqueror of Hamazi ({{cuneiform| 𒄩𒈠𒍣𒆠}}, ''ha-ma-zi{ki}'')".<ref>First fragment: {{cite web |title=CDLI-Archival View |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P222740 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref><ref>Second fragment: {{cite web |title=CDLI-Archival View |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P247657 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Collections Online British Museum |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1939-0612-1 |website=www.britishmuseum.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Thureau-Dangin |first1=F. (François) |title=Les inscriptions de Sumer et d'Akkad, transcription et traduction |date=1905 |publisher=Paris, Leroux |page=229 |url=https://archive.org/details/lesinscriptionsd00thuruoft/page/228/mode/2up/search/hamazi}}</ref> | reign = c. 2570 BC | father = | predecessor = | successor = Possibly Mesilim | dynasty = | succession = King of Kish }} {{Location map | Near East | width = 260px | float = right | border = | caption = Location of Kish | alt = | relief = yes | AlternativeMap = | overlay_image = | label = Kish | label_size = | position = | background = | mark = | marksize = | link = | lat_deg = 32.54027 | lon_deg = 44.60472 }} '''Uhub''' ({{langx|sux|{{cuneiform|𒌑𒄸}}}}, ''u2-hub2''),<ref>{{cite web |title=CDLI-Found Texts |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/search_results.php?SearchMode=Text&ObjectID=P222532 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref> ({{fl.|{{circa}} 2570 BC}}), was ''Ensi'' (Governor) of the Sumerian city-state of Kish before Mesilim.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Liverani |first1=Mario |title=The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-75084-9 |page=110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0d1JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA110 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Orientalia: Vol.48 |publisher=Gregorian Biblical BookShop |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=geiyimCkjYQC&pg=PA15 |language=en}}</ref>
His name is missing from the ''Sumerian king list'', just as the name of Mesilim, who ruled around 50 years later.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Panitschek |first1=Peter |title=LUGAL, šarru, basileús: Von der Uruk-Zeit bis Ur III |date=2008 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-3-631-56194-2 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kFB6Pt3E5eYC&pg=PA41 |language=de}}</ref><ref name="GR128"/> Uhub is mentioned on a vase dedicated to the god Zababa.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roux |first1=Georges |title=Mesopotamia: historia política, económica y cultural |date=1990 |publisher=Ediciones AKAL |isbn=978-84-7600-174-5 |page=155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KgzxF07OU4C&pg=PA155 |language=es}}</ref><ref name="GR128">{{cite book |last1=Roux |first1=Georges |title=La Mésopotamie. Essai d'histoire politique, économique et culturelle |date=2015 |publisher=Le Seuil |isbn=978-2-02-129163-6 |page=128 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2MmPCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT128 |language=fr}}</ref> The first inscription has been reconstructed as {{Cuneiform|𒀭𒍝𒈠𒈠 / 𒌑𒄸 / 𒑐𒋼𒋛 / 𒆧𒆠}}, ''Zamama, Uhub ensi kish-ki'' "Zababa, Uhub, Governor of Kish".<ref name="Hil"/>
Uhub is otherwise known from a few more inscriptions.<ref>{{cite web |title=CDLI-Found Texts |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/search_results.php?SearchMode=Text&requestFrom=Search&DatesReferenced=uhub |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref>
<gallery widths="200px" heights="100px" perrow="4"> Zababa Uhub Ensi Kish-ki.jpg|Transcription in standard Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform of the fragmentary inscription {{Cuneiform|𒀭𒍝𒈠𒈠 / 𒌑𒄸 / 𒑐𒋼𒋛 / 𒆧𒆠}}, ''Zamama, Uhub ensi kish-ki'' "Zababa, Uhub, Governor of Kish", British Museum (BM 129401). The second fragment from the same vase mentions "Pussusu conqueror of Hamazi".<ref>{{cite web|title=CDLI-Archival View|url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P222740|website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Collections Online British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1939-0612-1|website=www.britishmuseum.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Thureau-Dangin|first1=F. (François)|title=Les inscriptions de Sumer et d'Akkad, transcription et traduction|date=1905|publisher=Paris, Leroux|page=229|url=https://archive.org/details/lesinscriptionsd00thuruoft/page/228/mode/2up/search/hamazi}}</ref><ref name="Hil">{{cite book|last1=Hilprecht|first1=H. V. (Hermann Vollrat)|title=The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform texts|date=1892|publisher=Philadelphia : Dept. of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania|page=49 Note 2|url=https://archive.org/details/babylonianexpedi12univuoft/page/48/mode/2up/search/108}}</ref> File:Hamazi inscription.jpg|"Hamazi" in the second inscription </gallery>
==See also== {{Portal|Asia}} *History of Sumer
==References== {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * Vojtech Zamarovský, ''Na počiatku bol Sumer'', Mladé letá, 1968 Bratislava * Plamen Rusev, ''Mesalim, Lugal Na Kish: Politicheska Istoriia Na Ranen Shumer (XXVIII-XXVI V. Pr. N. E.), Faber, 2001'' (LanguageBulgarian) [(Mesalim, Lugal of Kish. Political History of Early Sumer (XXVIII–XXVI century BC.)]
Category:26th-century BC Sumerian kings Category:Governors in Asia Category:Kings of Kish Category:3rd-millennium BC births Category:3rd-millennium BC deaths