lugalship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "called himself "Ensi" as well as "Lugal" (179); the God Ningirsu bestowed upon him the "Lugalship" (nam-lugal) of Lagash (180), and the Goddess Bau destined him for the "shepherdship" (nam-sipa) of the land (181)."
- "His reform inscriptions state that when he "had received the lugalship ... he removed from the inhabitants of Lagash usury, forestalling, famine, robbery, attacks; he established their freedom ... [and] protected the widow and the orphan from the powerful man.""
- "As the temple and city lands of one state became insufficient to support its people, or as the possessions of one divinity seemed disproportionately greater than another whose adherents coveted the riches of their neighbour, or as a palace servant seized the 'lugalship' from a failing master, so the pressures began to mount which eventually would lead to the collapse of the Sumerian state."
- "Steinkeller has argued that the notion of “lugal'''ship” came to Sumer from Kiš and reflected a more authoritarian style of rule in comparison with the local Sumerian office of ensi, “city-state ruler."