# Uhub

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{{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](/source/Mesilim)
| dynasty      = 
| succession   = [King of Kish](/source/List_of_kings_of_Kish)
}}
{{Location map
| Near East
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| caption    = Location of [Kish](/source/Kish_civilization)
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| overlay_image = 
| label      = [Kish](/source/Kish_(Sumer))
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| lat_deg    = 32.54027
| lon_deg    = 44.60472
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'''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](/source/Ensi_(Sumerian))'' (Governor) of the [Sumer](/source/Sumer)ian city-state of [Kish](/source/Kish_(Sumer)) before [Mesilim](/source/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](/source/Sumerian_king_list)'', just as the name of [Mesilim](/source/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](/source/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](/source/ensi_(Sumerian)) 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](/source/cuneiform) of the fragmentary inscription {{Cuneiform|𒀭𒍝𒈠𒈠 / 𒌑𒄸 / 𒑐𒋼𒋛 / 𒆧𒆠}}, ''Zamama, Uhub [ensi](/source/ensi_(Sumerian)) 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](/source/Hamazi)" in the second inscription
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|Asia}}
*[History of Sumer](/source/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

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