Ur-nigin

Ur-nigin, also Ur-nigina (, ur-niŋin) or Ur-nigar (, ur-ni-gar) was a Governor (ensi) of Uruk who lived in 22nd century BC.

According to the Sumerian King List, Ur-Nigin destroyed the Akkadian Empire, which had probably already be weakened by the Gutians, and established a short-lived Fourth Dynasty of Uruk.

Ur-Nigin is also mentioned in several votive inscriptions by his son Ur-gigir. One of them reads:

The Fourth Dynasty of Uruk was finally destroyed by the Gutian Dynasty.