Excerpt from The English Historical Review, Vol. 17: April, 1902 In this connexion it may be noticed that he is one of the very few early kings whose wife's name has been recorded. It occurs on an agate seal preserved at the Hague, which was first explained by Hommel, and which reads, Gudea, patesi of Shirpurla, and Gin umun pa ud du his wife.' The latter name means Maiden of Marduk, ' or of the planet Jupiter.31 Hommel and Radau read the name simply gin-dun pa ud da. This mention of his wife points to her having been a personage of some consequence. It may be that it was through her be secured the throne, and she may have been the daughter of Ur Bau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.