Aga is listed on the
Sumerian King ListThe Sumerian King List is an ancient manuscript, originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer from Sumerian and foreign dynasties. It records the location of "official" kingship, along with the rulers and their supposed reign lengths...
as the last king in the first Dynasty of
KishKish is modern Tell al-Uhaymir, Babil Governorate, Iraq), and was an ancient city of Sumer...
.
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Aga is listed on the
Sumerian King ListThe Sumerian King List is an ancient manuscript, originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer from Sumerian and foreign dynasties. It records the location of "official" kingship, along with the rulers and their supposed reign lengths...
as the last king in the first Dynasty of
KishKish is modern Tell al-Uhaymir, Babil Governorate, Iraq), and was an ancient city of Sumer...
.
Aga is mentioned in the
Epic of GilgameshThe Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq and is among the earliest known works of literary writings. Scholars believe that it originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, which were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem much later;...
as having besieged
UrukUruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient dry former channel of the Euphrates River, some 30 km east of modern As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā,...
. He appears also in the earlier Sumerian text of
Bilgames and Akka, where he is referred to as Akka.
The
GilgameshGilgamesh, also known as Bilgameṣ in the earliest text, was the son of Lugalbanda and the fifth king of Uruk , ruling circa 2700 BC, according to the Sumerian king list...
epic, the Sumerian king list, and the
Tummal Chronicle all call him the son of En-me-barage-si, a king who has been verified through archaeological inscription, leading to theories that Gilgamesh was also historical.
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