Enentarzi

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| name = Enentarzi
𒂗𒂊𒋻𒍣

| image = Report to Enentarzi of the defeat of 600 Elamites who came to plunder Lagash.jpg

| caption = Report to Enentarzi of the defeat of 600 Elamites who came to plunder Lagash{{cite journal |last1=THUREAU-DANGIN |first1=Fçois |title=Une Incursion Élamite en Territoire Sumérien: A l'Époque Présargonique |journal=Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale |date=1907 |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=139–142 |jstor=23283625 |issn=0373-6032}}

| death_date = c. 2384 BC

| spouse =

| issue = Lugalanda

| reign = c. 2400 - 2384 BC

| father =

| predecessor = Enannatum II

| successor = Enlitarzi or Lugalanda

| dynasty = 1st Dynasty of Lagash

| succession = King of Lagash

}}

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Enentarzi ({{cuneiform|𒂗𒇷𒋻𒍣}}, en-en₃-tar-zid,{{cite web |title=Sumerian Dictionary |url=http://oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/epsd2/cbd/sux/E.html |website=oracc.iaas.upenn.edu}}) also {{cuneiform|𒂗𒂊𒋻𒍣}}, en-e-tar-zi; died {{Circa}} 2384 BC){{cite journal |last1=THUREAU-DANGIN |first1=Fçois |title=Une Incursion Élamite en Territoire Sumérien: A l'Époque Présargonique |journal=Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale |date=1907 |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=139–142 |jstor=23283625 |issn=0373-6032}} was Ensi (governor) of Lagash.{{cite book |last1=Crawford |first1=Harriet |author-link=Harriet Crawford |title=The Sumerian World |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-21912-2 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSOYAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR23 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Gonnet |first1=Hatice |author-link=Hatice Gonnet-Bağana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ADq4CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT144 |title=Le Proche-Orient asiatique. Tome 1: Des origines aux invasions des peuples de la mer |last2=Breniquet-Coury |first2=Catherine |last3=Garelli |first3=Paul |last4=Durand |first4=Jean-Marie |date=2015 |publisher=Presses Universitaires de France |isbn=978-2-13-073719-3 |page=144 |language=fr}} He was originally a chief-priest of Lagash for the god Ningirsu.

He succeed Enannatum II who only had a short reign and was the last representative of the house of Ur-Nanshe.{{cite book |last1=Radau |first1=Hugo |title=Early Babylonian History: Down to the End of the Fourth Dynasty of Ur |date=2005 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-59752-381-3 |pages=119–120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HVLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA119 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Gadd |first1=C. J. |last2=Edwards |first2=I. E. S. |last3=Hammond |first3=N. G. L. |title=The Cambridge Ancient History |date=1970 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-07051-5 |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pMoF0SbMKd4C&pg=PA220 |language=en}} It seems that the power of Lagash waned at this point, and that other territories such as Umma ("Gishban") and Kish prevailed.{{cite book |last1=Radau |first1=Hugo |title=Early Babylonian History: Down to the End of the Fourth Dynasty of Ur |date=2005 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-59752-381-3 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HVLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA120 |language=en}}

Enentarzi probably ruled for at least 4 years.{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=C. H. W. |title=Ancient Babylonia |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-60572-5 |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0PfuOOEZX1wC&pg=PA34 |language=en}}

An inscription records that 600 Elamites came to plunder Lagash during the rule of Enentarzi, but that they were repelled.{{cite journal |last1=THUREAU-DANGIN |first1=Fçois |title=Une Incursion Élamite en Territoire Sumérien: A l'Époque Présargonique |journal=Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale |date=1907 |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=139–142 |jstor=23283625 |issn=0373-6032}}

He was succeeded by either a priest named Enlitarzi, or his son Lugalanda.