Sumuel

{{Short description|Amorite king}}

File:Votive dog Louvre AO4349 n2.jpg to the goddess Ninisina, for the life of "Sûmû-El, king of Ur". Musée du Louvre.Full translation in {{cite web |title=CDLI-Archival View |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P448355 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}]]

File:Dog of Sumuel.jpg

Sumuel or Sumu-El ({{cuneiform|𒋢𒈬𒀭}}, su-mu-el3) ruled the ancient Near East city-state

of Larsa from c. 1895-1866 BC (MC). He was an Amorite.[https://uruk-warka.dk/news/2023/THE_RULERS_OF_LARSA.pdf] M. Fitzgerald, "The Rulers of Larsa", Yale University Dissertation, 2002[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1075&context=books]Marcel Segrist, "Larsa Year Names", Andrews University Press, 1990

{{ISBN|0-943872-54-5}}E.M. Grice , C.E. Keiser, M. Jastrow, Chronology of the Larsa Dynasty, AMS Press, 1979 {{ISBN|0-404-60274-6}}

Annals for his complete 29-year reign have survived; thus it is known that he campaigned against Akusum and Kazallu in his year 4, Uruk in year 5, Pinaratim in year 8, Sabum in year 10, Kish in year 11, Kazallu in year 15, Nanna-Isha in 16, and Umma at the end of his reign.{{cite web |title=Year names of Sûmû-El |url=http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=year_names_sumu-el |website=cdli.ox.ac.uk}} Most of these seem to be names of small villages along the Euphrates.

Sumuel is known from several inscriptions.{{cite web |title=CDLI-Found Texts |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P448355 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}