King Gudea, from the Lagash Dynasty.
Excavation at the site has shown that the city measured some 2,880 square kilometers and to have numbered 30,000-35000 people.
Lagash was later absorbed by the 3d dynasty of Ur, which governed both Akkad and Sumer. Toward the end of the 3d millennium Elam took over most of the power as a new wave of Semitic-speaking peoples entered Mesopotamia.
Now called Talloh. Lagash was one of Babylon’s most ancient cities; the national deity of the city was Ningirsu, whose name means ‘Lord of Girsu’, was imported from the Early Dynastic Period until the Old Babylonian Period as a local form of the god “Ninurta”.
After the fall of the Akkadian Empire only Lagash was maintained under king Gudea(Gudea: means the one called ‘to power’).
King Gudea, from the Lagash Dynasty.