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Gudea
Gudea was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2100 BCE, in the period between the fall of the Akkadian Empire and the rise of the Third Dynasty of Ur. He is known for an unusual number of temple-building inscriptions and some two dozen diorite statues showing him in prayer, most of them now in the Louvre. His Gudea Cylinders describe the rebuilding of the Eninnu temple of Ningirsu at Girsu.
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