==The Macehead of Mesilim==

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//Artifact//: Macehead, stone\\ 
//Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ 
//Period//: ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/mace-head-king-mesilim|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ 
//Text genre, language//: Royal inscription; Sumerian\\ 
[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P222741|CDLI page]]\\ 

//Description//: This limestone ceremonial macehead  was excavated near the end of the of the 19th century by Ernest de Sarzec at Tello (ancient Girsu). The inscription evidences a multi-tiered political system among the city-states of the Early Dynastic periods. In the short inscription, Me-Selim, referred to as **lugal** (king) of Kish, built a temple of Ningirsu (patron god of Lagash). Lugal-shag-engur is also recorded as the **ensi** of Lagash. (See also Me-Selim’s role in the Umma-Lagash border conflict text above). 

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//Edition(s)//: Sarzec Édouard de, Découvertes en Chaldée, Paris, Leroux, 1884-1912, pp. 223-6.; Frayne, Douglas R. Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia: Early Periods. 2007. RIME 1.08.01.01, ex. 01


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