Ilku

{{Short description|Sumerian king}}

{{Infobox character

| name = Ilku

| first = Sumerian King List
{{circa|2000 BC}}

| occupation = King of Kish (reigned {{circa|900}} years)

}}

Ilku of Kish was the twentieth Sumerian king in the First Dynasty of Kish, according to the Sumerian King List.Thorkild Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939), pp. 82f His name does not appear in Early Dynastic inscriptions, meaning that he is unlikely to have been a real historical person.{{Cite journal|last=Marchesi|first=Gianni|date=2010|title=The Sumerian King List and the Early History of Mesopotamia|url=https://www.academia.edu/10052536/The_Sumerian_King_List_and_the_Early_History_of_Mesopotamia|journal=M. G. Biga - M. Liverani (eds.), ana turri gimilli: Studi dedicati al Padre Werner R. Mayer, S. J., da amici e allievi (Vicino Oriente - Quaderno 5; Roma)|pages=231-248}}