| Ur-dukuga | |
|---|---|
| King ofIsin | |
 | |
| Reign | c. 1830–1828 BC (MC) |
| Predecessor | Iter-piša |
| Successor | Sîn-māgir |
| House | Dynasty of Isin |
Ur-dukuga, writtendur-du6-kù-ga, c. 1830–1828 BC (MC), was the 13th king of theDynasty of Isin and reigned for 4 years according to theSumerian King List,[i 1] 3 years according to theUr-Isin kinglist.[i 2][1] He was the third in a sequence of short reigning monarchs whose filiation was unknown and whose power extended over a small region encompassing little more than the city of Isin and its neighborNippur. He was probably a contemporary ofWarad-Sîn ofLarsa andApil-Sîn ofBabylon.
He creditedDāgan, a god from the middle Euphrates region who had possibly been introduced by the dynasty’s founder,Išbi-Erra, with his creation, in cones[i 3] commemorating the construction of the deity’s temple, the Etuškigara, or the house “well founded residence,” an event also celebrated in a year-name. The inscription describes him as the “shepherd who brings everything for Nippur, the supreme farmer of the godsAn andEnlil, provider of the Ekur…” This heaps profuse declarations of his care for Nippur’s sanctuaries, the Ekur for Enlil, the Ešumeša forNinurta and the Egalmaḫ forGula, Ninurta’s divine wife.[2]
A piece of brick from Isin,[i 4] bears his titulary but the event it marked has not been preserved. A cone shaft[i 5] memorializes the building of a temple ofLulal of the cultic city of Dul-edena, northeast of Nippur on the Iturungal canal.[3] The digging of the Imgur-Ninisin canal was celebrated in another year-name.