Who Was The Sumerian Ensi?
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Assyriologists have identified around twenty central provinces, and much we know today about Sumer originates from archives related to the sites of Girsu(Tello), Umma, Ur, Nippur, and Puzriš-Dagan (Drehem, a suburb of Nippur).
Sumerian cylinder seal impression dating to c. 3200 BC, showing an ensi and his acolyte feeding a sacred herd. Image credit: PHGCOM – CC BY-SA 4.0
Especially the collections from Umma and Girsu-Lagash are practically the only surviving provincial archives from the times of the Third Dynasty from Ur, which can serve as the basis for the study of local power structures, including the position of ensi.
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