# Ukush

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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Ukush<br>{{nobold|{{cuneiform|𒌑𒌑}}}}
| image        = File:Lugalzagesi king of Uruk king of the Land son of Ukush.jpg
| caption      = "Lugalzagesi, king of Uruk, king of the Land, (...) son of Ukush, [ensi](/source/ensi_(Sumerian)) of [Umma](/source/Umma)", ("son of Ukush": 𒌉 𒌑𒌑, ''dumu u<sub>2</sub>-[kuš](/source/%3Awikibooks%3ASumerian%2FList)<sub>3</sub>'') in the ''[Nippur vase of Lugalzagesi](/source/%3AFile%3ANippur_vase_of_Lugalzagesi.jpg)''
| succession   = [King of Umma](/source/List_of_kings_of_Umma)
| reign        = c. 2358 BC
| predecessor  = Possibly [Edin](/source/Edin_(King))
| successor    = [Lugal-zage-si](/source/Lugal-zage-si)
| death_date   = c. 2358 BC
| issue        = [Lugal-zage-si](/source/Lugal-zage-si)
}}
{{Location map
| Near East
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| label      = [Umma](/source/Umma)
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'''Ukush''', also sometimes '''Uu''' or '''Bubu''' (Sumerian: {{cuneiform|𒌑𒌑}}, which can be read u<sub>2</sub>-[kuš](/source/%3Awikibooks%3ASumerian%2FList)<sub>3</sub> or u<sub>2</sub>-u<sub>2</sub>; died {{Circa}} 2358 BC)<ref name="CDLI-Archival View">{{cite web |title=CDLI-Archival View |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P431232 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pongratz-Leisten |first1=Beate |title=Religion and Ideology in Assyria |date=2015 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-1-61451-426-8 |page=147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJqnCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 |language=en}}</ref> was a [Sumer](/source/Sumer)ian ruler ([ensi](/source/ensi_(Sumerian))) of the [city-state](/source/city-state) of [Umma](/source/Umma).<ref name="CUP36" /> He was the father of [Lugal-zage-si](/source/Lugal-zage-si) who took control over all of [Sumer](/source/Sumer).<ref name="CUP36">{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=C. H. W. |title=Ancient Babylonia |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-60572-5 |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0PfuOOEZX1wC&pg=PA36 |language=en}}</ref>

Ukush is known from the ''[Nippur vase inscription](/source/%3AFile%3ANippur_vase_of_Lugalzagesi.jpg)''<ref name="CDLI-Archival View"/><ref>Full text {{cite web |title=Lugalzagesi translation |url=http://sumerianshakespeare.com/70701/81701.html |website=sumerianshakespeare.com}}</ref> of [Lugal-Zage-Si](/source/Lugal-Zage-Si):

{{blockquote|"Lugal-zagesi-si, King of [Uruk](/source/Uruk), King of the Land, priest of [Ana](/source/Aya_(goddess)), prophet of [Nidaba](/source/Nidaba); the son of Ukush, [patesi](/source/ensi_(Sumerian)) of Umma, the prophet of [Nidaba](/source/Nidaba); he who was favourably regarded by Ana, the king of the lands; the great [patesi](/source/ensi_(Sumerian)) of [Enlil](/source/Enlil); endowed with understanding by [Enki](/source/Enki); whose name was spoken by [Babbar](/source/Shamash) (the Sun-god), the chief minister of [Enzu](/source/Enzu) (the Moon-god), the representative of Babbar, the patron of [Ninni](/source/Ninni), the son of [Nidaba](/source/Nidaba), who was nourished with holy milk by [Ninkharsag](/source/Ninkharsag), the servant of the god Mes, who is the priest of Uruk, the pupil of Ninabukkhadu, the mistress of Uruk, the Great Minister of the gods".|''[Nippur vase inscription](/source/%3AFile%3ANippur_vase_of_Lugalzagesi.jpg)'' of Lugal-zagesi-si.<ref>RIME 1.14.20.01 Frayne, Douglas R. 2007 FAOS 05/2, Lugazagesi 1 {{cite web |title=CDLI-Archival View |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P431232 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A History Of Sumer And Akkad |publisher=Chatto & Windus|date=1916 |page=194 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41242/page/n255/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name="WS80">{{cite book |last1=Sallaberger |first1=Walther |last2=Schrakamp |first2=Ingo |title=History & Philology |date=2015 |publisher=Walther Sallaberger & Ingo Schrakamp (eds), Brepols |isbn=978-2-503-53494-7 |pages=80–81 |url=https://www.assyriologie.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/sallaberger/publ_sallaberger/wasa_schrakamp_2015_arcane1.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Zólyomi |first1=Gábor |title=The vase inscription of Lugal-zagesi and the history of his reign |url=https://www.academia.edu/13373680/The_vase_inscription_of_Lugal-zagesi_and_the_history_of_his_reign |language=en}}</ref>}}

Other inscriptions, such as an inscription on a brick with a central hole in the [Bible Lands Museum](/source/Bible_Lands_Museum), also mention Lugalzagesi as "son of Ukush" (𒌉 𒌑𒌑, ''dumu u<sub>2</sub>-u<sub>2</sub>'').<ref>RIME 1.12.07.01, ex. 01 {{cite web |title=CDLI-Archival View |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P247678 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref> Another dedicatory inscription is also known.<ref>RIME 1.12.07.01 composite Frayne, Douglas R. 2007 {{cite web |title=CDLI-Archival View |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P431198 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}</ref>

It is thought that he played an important role in making Umma a strong city with a powerful army, which allowed his son to achieve the defeat of neighbouring and traditional rival [Lagash](/source/Lagash) and its king [Urukagina](/source/Urukagina), and then the conquest of all [Sumer](/source/Sumer).<ref>{{cite book |last1=King |first1=Leonard W. |title=A history of Sumer and Akkad |date=1994 |publisher=Рипол Классик |isbn=978-5-87664-034-5 |page=188 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_8NAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA188 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=H. R. |title=The Ancient History of the Near East: From the Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-27164-2 |pages=245–246 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqBACwAAQBAJ&pg=PT245 |language=en}}</ref>

<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
File:Nippur vase of Lugalzagesi.jpg|Nippur vase of [Lugalzagesi](/source/Lugalzagesi), where Lugalzagesi describes himself as "son of Ukush" (𒌉 𒌑𒌑, ''dumu u<sub>2</sub>-[kuš](/source/%3Awikibooks%3ASumerian%2FList)<sub>3</sub>'', in the 9th column from top right)
</gallery>

== See also ==
*[History of Sumer](/source/History_of_Sumer)

== References ==
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{{Succession box
| before = Possibly [Edin](/source/Edin_(King))
| title = [King of Umma](/source/List_of_kings_of_Umma)
| years = c. 2358 BC
| after = [Lugal-zage-si](/source/Lugal-zage-si)
}}
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Category:Kings of Umma
Category:24th-century BC Sumerian kings
Category:3rd-millennium BC births
Category:24th-century BC deaths

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