lugal

I would suggest you look to the transitions between primitively democratic systems of governance based on unkin, en (religio-economic figurehead) and lugal (temporary military leader) and autocratic systems of governance based on the ensi, the fusion of en and lugal as monarchic sovereign.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

I would suggest you look to the transitions between primitively democratic systems of governance based on unkin, en (religio-economic figurehead) and lugal (temporary military leader) and autocratic systems of governance based on the ensi, the fusion of en and lugal as monarchic sovereign.

A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

It's not a straightforward progression; rather power shifts constantly between the local equivalents of the three mainstays of early Sumerian politics: the en, the spiritual authority, representative of the city diety; the lugal, the great householder and military leader in times of war; the unkin, the assembly of elders who held these two in check.

The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006

The lugal argues that the house -- the Nation, in this day and age -- is what matters over everything.

The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006

Only in later Sumerian society did the office of the en and the lugal merge into what we think of as kings -- the ensi.

The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006

Lug's curious name may have come in some remote past time from Mesopotamia, where the title of a sacred king, the Goddess' spouse, was lugal.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

Later, as multicity states formed, a king (Sumerian lugal, Akkadian sharrum) reigned, and each individual city was administered by a governor (ensi or ishiakkum).

b. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture 2001

at first a temporary position, the lugal quickly becomes the most important post in the city.

between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2007

as cities grow large enough that they must compete with each other, there is need for a war leader, the lugal

between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2007

_lugal_, "king", which, though always a term of secular character, was not very sharply distinguished from that of _patesi_ and other religious titles, until, in accordance with political development, it was required to connote a wider dominion.

Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition 1894