Ur-nigin

Ur-nigin, also Ur-nigina or Ur-nigar was a Governor 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 Fifth Dynasty of Uruk.
The Sumerian King List, describing the confusion of the decline of the Akkadian Empire after the death of Shar-kali-shari, mentions the rule of several kings, among them Ur-Nigin:
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.