Meskiagnun, also Mesh-ki-ang-Nanna (, , also , ; died 2450 BC), was the fourth lugal or king of the First Dynasty of Ur, according to the Sumerian King List, which states he ruled for 36 years.Thorkild Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939), pp. 94f
Bowl dedication Meskiagnun is mentioned in two bowl dedications by his wife Gan-Saman, with the same inscription:
Records of temple dedication to the gods in the Tummal inscription He is also mentioned in the Tummal Inscription with his father Mesannepada, as restoring the Tummal shrine to Enlil and Ninlil in Nippur after it had "fallen into ruin":
Chronological discrepancies
The Tummal inscription attests to a relative date for Meskiagnun and his father between Enmebaragesi and Gilgamesh, whereas the Sumerian King List dates the father and son pair generations after Enmebaragesi and Gilgamesh. Samuel Noah Kramer notes that this raises "a chronological problem which cannot be resolved for the present."Kramer, The Sumerians (Chicago: University Press, 1963), p. 50 Meskiagnun is mentioned as follows in the Sumerian King List:
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