A view of Girsu (Telloh) - Wall Cones and Votive Stelae offered by Gudea to NIN-GIRSU Temple, Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul Archaeology Museums, Şehr-i İstanbul, Turkey (Gudea tarafından Tanrı NİNGİRSU Tapınağına adak olarak adanan duvar çinileri). We come across names of kings and lists of dynasties in Mesopotamia first after circa 2700 B.C. The first dynasty list in which 7 governors (ENSI) follow one another is from the city state of Lagash. The capital of the city state of Lagash is Girsu (Telloh). Apart from Girsu there are Ensi lists also in Kish, Uruk (Warka) and Umma.
In the Early Dynastic Period of Sumer, as construction material planoconvex (rounded rectangular) bricks were used. On top of some there are inscriptions of the person who built or restored the building. These inscriptions were written while the brick was still wet. The inscribed bricks of Ensis like Ur-Nanshe, E-ana-tuma and En-temena from the Lagash Dynasty have survived to our day. From quite early on, the Sumerians believed that they protected sacred buildings from subtecranean evil by sticking copper and bronze statuettes ending like a peg in the corners, under the floors and thresholds of temples. The statuettes usually represent people with their hands joined under the breast. Almost all have the cuneiform inscription of the person who built the building. Some statuettes have been placed under the floors with marble building inscription in planoconvex brick form on their heads. Some of these are Entemena, one of the governors of Lagash.
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