Ensuhkeshdanna

Ensuhkeshdanna

▪ Mesopotamian ruler
also spelled  Ensukushsiranna 

      legendary ruler of the ancient Sumerian city-state of Aratta and rival of the king of Uruk (Erech), Enmerkar.

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