Template:Short description Template:Infobox royalty Shu-turul (Shu-durul, Template:Cuneiform, shu-tur2-ul3<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Gadd">Template:Cite book</ref> also Šu-Turul; died Template:Circa 2154 BC) was the last king of Akkad, ruling for 15 years according to the Sumerian king list.<ref>Handbook To Life In Ancient Mesopotamia by Stephen Bertman</ref> It indicates that he succeeded his father Dudu. A few artifacts, seal impressions etc. attest that he held sway over a greatly reduced Akkadian territory that included Kish, Tutub, Nippur, and Eshnunna. The Diyala River also bore the name "Shu-durul" at the time.<ref>Donald M. Matthews, The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak: Cylinder Seals of Third Millennium Syria 1997, p. 15.</ref>
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Sumerian King ListEdit
The king list asserts that Akkad was then conquered, and the hegemony returned to Uruk following his reign.<ref>Who's Who in the Ancient Near East by Gwendolyn Leick</ref> It further lists six names of an Uruk dynasty; however only two of these six rulers, Ur-nigin, and Ur-gigir, have been confirmed through archaeology. With Akkad's collapse the Gutians, who had established their capital at Adab, became the regional power, though several of the southern city-states such as Uruk, Ur and Lagash also declared independence around this time.<ref>M. Molina, "The palace of Adab during the Sargonic period", D. Wicke (ed.), Der Palast im antiken und islamischen Orient, Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 9, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 151-20, 2019</ref>
InscriptionsEdit
A few inscriptions in his name are known.<ref name="Frayne" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> One, on an administrative clay sealing found at Kish reads:
A clay sealing of Shu-turl was found at Nippur.<ref>Gibson, McGuire, "A Re-Evaluation of the Akkad Period in the Diyala Region on the Basis of Recent Excavations at Nippur and in the Hamrin", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 531–38, 1982</ref> Another reading "[S]u-Turul, the [m]ighty, [ki]ng of [Aga]de: ... [(is) his servant]." was found at Tell Asmar.<ref name="Frayne" />
A votive mace, made of dark green marble,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Shu-turul mace">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is also known with an inscription mentioning Shu-turul and the dedication of a temple to Nergal:
A seventeen centimeter long copper axe, acquired on the antiquities market, reads "Su-Turul, the mighty, king of Agade".<ref name="Frayne" />
A tablet found at Adab contains the year name "year when Shu-Durul assumed the kingdom".<ref> F. Pomponio, G. Visicato, A. Westenholz, Le tavolette cuneiformidi Adab delle collezioni della Banca d’Italia", Vol. I. Roma, 2006</ref><ref>Kogan, L. and Markina, K., "R. Hasselbach. Sargonic Akkadian. A Historical and Comparative Study of the Syllabic Texts", Babel und Bibel 3: Annual of Ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament and Semitic Studies, edited by Leonid E. Kogan, Natalia Koslova, Sergey Loesov and Serguei Tishchenko, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 555-588, 2006</ref>
A one manna weight(in the shape of a duck), now held at the Urfa Museum, is inscribed with the name of an official of Akkadian ruler Shu-durul was recovered from a looted context in Titris Hoyuk.<ref>T. Matney, "Urban planning and the archaeology of society at Early Bronze Age Titris ̧Höyük" In: D. C. Hopkins (Hrsg.), Across the Anatolian Plateau. Readings in the archaeology of ancient Turkey. The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 57, pp. 19–34, Boston, 2002</ref>
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Shu-turul in the Akkadian family tree
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