Sarlagab

Sarlagab appears within the Sumerian King List tradition as one of a sequence of Gutian rulers who held kingship in Sumer after the decline of Akkadian hegemony. In the king-list order he follows Inkishush and precedes Shulme; entries of this genre record name and regnal length rather than narrative biography. Modern compilations reproduce this placement and synchronize the Gutian sequence against other fragmentary sources to produce approximate dates in the early 2200s BCE. One secondary hypothesis, based on an Akkadian year-name, suggests Sarlagab may be the Gutian king described as taken prisoner by the Akkadian ruler Šar-kali-šarri, but this identification is presented in sources as a possibility rather than established fact.

The supplied Sumerian king-list entries and modern summaries provide no physical or iconographic description of Sarlagab. King-list entries are formulaic, focusing on succession and reign lengths, and do not preserve personal details such as appearance; no primary text in the provided materials records bodily characteristics or portraits.

As attested in the sources, Sarlagab's "abilities" are those of an earthly monarch: holding kingship over Gutian-controlled territory for a recorded regnal period (commonly given as six years). The only behavior beyond kingship suggested in the supplied materials is a debated secondary reading of an Akkadian year-name that would record his capture by Šar-kali-šarri; that identification is presented as a hypothesis in modern summaries rather than a firmly established historical fact.