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'''An-am''' (AN-am<sub>3</sub>) (also Dingiram or Anam) was a ruler of the Old Babylonian period city of [[Uruk]]. He took the titles of "Shepard of Uruk" and "Army Chief of Uruk". An-am is known to be the father of the succeeding ruler [[Irdanene]] from the latter's year name "... brought a statue in gold representing Dingiram his father into the temple of Nanaia".<ref>[https://cdli-gh.github.io/year-names/HTML/T28K10.htm Year Names of Irdanene - CDLI]</ref> Unlike the rest of the dynasty An-am and Irdanene had Sumerian names.<ref name="Falkenstein1963" /> A royal hymn to An-am was found at Uruk.<ref>Hallo, William W., "Royal Hymns and Mesopotamian Unity", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 112–118, 1963</ref> He restored the temples of An and Inanna "the ancient work of divine Ur-Nammu and Sulgi".<ref name="Frayne1990" />
From one inscription found at Uruk we know that he was the son of Ilān-šemeā and that
he rebuilt the city wall of Uruk.
{{blockquote|text="Anam, army chief of Uruk, son of Ilān-šemeā, when the wall of Uruk, the old construction of Gilgameš, he restored, that the waters going around it might roar (without damaging it) with burnt bricks he built it for him (Gilgameš)"<ref>[https://cdli.ucla.edu/P448540]"RIME 4.04.06.04 Composite Artifact Entry", Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), January 20, 2013</ref>
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In another inscription he records building a temple for the goddess [[Kanisurra]], called the "mistress of the Iturungal", with the Iturungal being a major canal in Sumer.<ref>Steinkeller, Piotr, "New light on the hydrology and topography of southern Babylonia in the third millennium", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 91, iss. 1, pp. 22-84, 2001</ref>
Several of An-am's year names are known:<ref>Köcher, Franz, "Keilschrifttexte Aus Assur 2", Vol. 2, Die Babylonisch-Assyrische Medizin in Texten Und Untersuchungen, De Gruyter, 1963</ref>
*Year AN-am became king
*Year in which (Dingiram) made opposite the gate of the [[giparu|gipar]] / "nunnery" a pure (bed) and placed there (in the gate) a statue adorned with gold for An and Inanna
*Year (Dingiram made) 2 thrones (and) a statue of the king
*Year he restored the interior of the decaying temple of An and Inanna
In a letter to ruler of Babylon [[Sin-muballit]] (c. 1813-1792 BC), An-am reminds him that they are both of "one house" ie. from the Yaminite tribe of Amnanum. [[Sîn-kāšid]], the founder of the 6th Dynasty of Uruk, took as a title "King of the Amnanum (Tribe)" (lugal am-na-nu-um) as did the third ruler, [[Sîn-gāmil]].<ref>Michalowski, Piotr, "History as charter some observations on the sumerian king list", Journal of the American Oriental Society 103.1, pp. 237-248, 1983</ref>
{{blockquote|text="... Ever since the kings of Uruk and Babylon are one house—except for the present moment when my heart and your heart were grieved—and, by what I have heard from the mouth of my father and my grandfather, whom I have known personally, ever since the time of Sin-kašid and since the time I witnessed myself until now, the army of Amnan-Yahrur (troops of Babylon) has indeed arrived here two or three times for military assistance to this house ..."<ref name="Falkenstein1963" >Falkenstein, Adam, "Zu den Inschriftenfunden der Grabung in Uruk-Warka 1960-1961: A. von Haller zum 70. Geburtstag am 29. Mai 1962 gewidmet." Baghdader Mitteilungen 2, pp. 1-82, 1963</ref><ref>van Koppen, F., "Miscellaneous Old Babylonian period documents", in Chavalas, M.W. (ed.), The ancient Near East: historical sources in translation, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 107-133, 2006</ref><ref>Sasson, Jack M., "Kingship", From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 21-118, 2015</ref>
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A few of the inscriptions of An-am are thought to have antedated his reign.<ref>William W. Hallo, "Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles: A Philological and Historical Analysis", AOS 43, 1957</ref> In two inscriptions of An-am from the rule of Sîn-gāmil on the construction of a temple for the god Nergal in the city of Uṣarpara close with "Anam, archivist, son of Ilān-šemeā, built this temple". The location of Uṣarpara is unknown.<ref name="Frayne1990" >Frayne, Douglas, "Uruk", Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 B.C.): Early Periods, Volume 4, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 439-483, 1990</ref>
A millennium later an inscribed barrel cylinder of Babylonian ruler [[Marduk-apla-iddina II]] (722–710, 703–702 BC) records rebuilding a "house of the god [[Ningishzida]]" in [[Uruk]] built by An-am.<ref>Gadd, C. J., "Inscribed Barrel Cylinder of Marduk-Apla-Iddina II", Iraq, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 123–34, 1953</ref><ref>Lenzen, H., "The Ningišzida Temple Built by Marduk-Apala-Iddina II at Uruk (Warka)", Iraq 19.2, pp. 146-150, 1957</ref><ref>[https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1117&context=letfspubs]Steven W. Holloway, "Sargon II and His Redactors Repair Eanna of Uruk", Biblical Research 43, pp. 22-49, 1998</ref>
==See also==
*[[List of Mesopotamian dynasties]]
*[[Chronology of the ancient Near East]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Further reading==
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-528504]Johns, C. H. W., "A New Inscription of An-Am", The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. 30, pp. 290-291, 1914-07-01
*[https://journal.fi/store/article/view/51697/16065]Kärki, Ilmari, "Uruk", Studia Orientalia Electronica 49, pp. 176-193, 1980
*Tournay, Raymond-Jaques, "Inscription d'Anam, roi d'Uruk et successeur de Gilgamesh", Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William Foxwell Albright, pp. 453-457, 1971
==External links==
*[https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/448538 CDLI entry of AN-am temple building dedication]
*[https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/search?dates_referenced=anam&limit=500 All AN-am objects at CDLI]
[[Category:Kings of Uruk]]