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the grandfather of the latter prince and ruled sometime
about 2750 B. c. He conquered Lulubu and the
land as far as the northern Mesopotamia. Eastern
Arabia too was brought under the empire and he rightly
styled himself as the "King of the Four Quarters of
the World." From other sources also it is evident that
both Naram-Sin and his grandson Saragali-sharrl in-
herited the empire of Sargon. The stela, commemorat-
ing Naram-Sin's subjugation of Saturii, king of Lulubu,
is a splendid piece and is reckoned among the triumphs
of ancient Babylonian art which reached its apogee in
this relief. It depicts with exceptional vigour Naram-
Sin's march with his officers on his enemy Satuni of
the northern uplands and details the figures to an
unprecedented degree in the relief.
Sharagali-sharri was fallowed by anarchy which
was brought to an end by Dudu who restored peace
in the land. The family, however, could not endure
long and shortly after his son's reign Uruk fell to the
might of the mountaineers of Guti,, the hills of the Zagros.
The Guti dynasty ruled for 125 years and was followed
at Uruk by a Sumerian prince and the land ultimately
passed on to the Third Dynasty of Ur. Next followed
Ur-Nammu. The second king of the new dynasty
of Ur assumed a new title, that of the "King of Sumer
and Akkad." This was a Sumerian dynasty that
had been set up at Ur. The kings of the dynasty
endeavoured to outdo the Semite rulers Naram-Sin
and the great Sargon and their reaction against them
was such that they sacked the shrines of the Semitic
gods and carried off their temple-treasures. This
was more true of Shulgi, the son of Ur-Nammu, than of
any other.
This dynasty of Ur was put an end to by the king
of Elam who conquered Ur and carried its ruler,
the third successor of Shulgi, off to his capital. The
end of the dynasty came sometime about 2357 B. c.
The Elamite conqueror also sacked Uruk and carried