What is the name of Gilgamesh’s son in the Sumerian King List?

Ur-Nungal is the name of Gilgamesh’s son in the Sumerian King List.

The Sumerian King List places Ur-Nungal after Gilgamesh in the succession of rulers of Uruk. It presents him as a king who inherited the throne after the famous hero, though the list’s chronological and historical claims combine tradition, political memory, and legendary material.

The King List is not a straightforward modern history book. It assigns extraordinarily long reigns to some early rulers and arranges dynasties in a selective sequence. Even so, it is an important source for how Mesopotamian scribes organized ideas about kingship and the past.

Ur-Nungal should not be confused with Lugalbanda, Gilgamesh’s traditional father, or Agga, a king associated with Kish in another Gilgamesh-era tradition. The name is specifically tied to Gilgamesh’s succession in the King List.