Shulgi

Shulgi, formerly read as Dungi, was the second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur and reigned for forty-eight years, from about 2094 to about 2046 BC by the Middle Chronology. He was the son of Ur-Nammu and his queen Watartum, and he finished the Great Ziggurat of Ur that his father had begun. He styled himself King of Ur and King of Sumer and Akkad, and later King of the four corners of the universe, and from about his twenty-first year he placed the divine sign before his name and was worshipped as a god. His reign is described as a major modernization of the Ur III state: he improved communications, reorganized the army, reformed writing, weights and measures and the tax system, and built a strong bureaucracy. He is also known for reshaping the curriculum of the scribal schools and for the many praise poems written by or about him. Later Mesopotamian chronicles condemned him for impiety, and the cause of his death in his forty-eighth year is unknown, with some researchers suggesting assassination. He was succeeded by Amar-Sin.