Erridupizir (Erridu-pizir) c. 2205-2202 BC (MC) was a Gutian ruler in Sumer. His reign was attested by a royal inscription at the archaeological site for the ancient city-state of Nippur where he called himself: "King of Guti, King of the Four Quarters" Thought to be the "king without a name" on the SKL.Douglas Frayne, "Gutium", "Sargonic and Gutian Periods (2234-2113 BC)", RIM The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Volume 2, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 219-230, 1993 Jean-Jacques Glassner, "Mesopotamian Chronicles", 2004 Erich Ebling, Bruno Meissner, "Reallexikon der Assyriologie", Walter de Gruyter, 1993 Imta then succeeded Erridupizir.
After the Akkadian Empire fell to the Gutians, the Lullubians rebelled against Erridupizir, according to the latter's inscriptions:
In another inscription he said "the goddess Aštar had stationed troops in Agade".van Dijk-Coombes, Renate Marian. “‘Lady of Battle, His Beloved Spouse’: The Relationship between the Body of Inana/Ištar and Her Spheres of War and Love from the Jemdet Nasr to the Old Babylonian Period.” Die Welt Des Orients, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 146–76, 2020
In an Old Babylonian copy, found in Nippur, of an earlier inscription from a monument dedicated by Erridupizir to the god Enlil in Nippur it read "... Erridu-(pi]zir, the migh[ty], king of Gutium and the four quarters took (him, i. e. his opponent, the ruler of Magda) away by force through the gate of the god of Gutium, struck him, and killed him, the king (of Magda). Thus (says) Erridu-pizir, the mighty, king of Gutium [and] of the [f] our [qua]rters: >At that day I fashioned a statue of myself and placed my foot at his neck ...".George, A. R., "Erridupizir’s triumph and Old Akkadian sa’pum ‘foot’.", Akkade is king. A collection of papers by friends and colleagues presented to Aage Westenholz. PIHANS 118, pp. 139-141, 2011 The colophon read "inscribed tablet: 3 statues of Erridu-pizir".Sövegjártó, Szilvia, "A Collector’s Edition of the Past: Personal Collections of Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions from the Old Babylonian Period", Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes, edited by David Durand-Guédy and Jürgen Paul, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 447-476, 2023
See also
Chronology of the ancient Near East List of Mesopotamian dynasties
References
Further reading Markina, Ekaterina, "“They embraced his feet, saying… and ezēbum as idioms of loyalty and defiance in Sargonic", pp. 165-168, 2010