Yagli-El

Yagli-El (Yaglī-ʼel - the god has shown himself or the god revealed)[1] was a king from Dilmun who was ruling around 1700 BC. Yagli-El is known from four cuneiform inscriptions that were placed on steatite vessels. Three of these vessels were found in a big tomb on Bahrain. It is most likely that this tomb was his burial place. All inscriptions bear the same text: Palace of Yagli-El, the servant on Inzak of Akkarum. In one of the inscriptions also Yagli-El's father Riʼmum is mentioned, who was then his predecessor.[2]

The inscriptions do not call Yagli-El king, but the big size of the burial place leaves little doubt about it. A king (lugal) of Dilmun is mentioned in cuneiform texts.[3] The name Yagli-El is Amoritic showing that Amorites lived on Bahrain.[4] The style of the cuneiform signs dates this king around 1700 BC.

References
  1. Gianni Marchesiː Inscriptions from the Royal Mounds of A'alo (Bahrain) and related Texts, inː Steffen Terp Laursenː The Royal Mounds of A'ali in Bahrain, Aarhus 2017, ISBN 978-87-93423-16-9, pp. 426
  2. Marchesi, inː Terp Laursenː The Royal Mounds of A'ali in Bahrain, p. 425
  3. Marchesi, inː Terp Laursenː The Royal Mounds of A'ali in Bahrain, p. 429
  4. Marchesi, inː Terp Laursenː The Royal Mounds of A'ali in Bahrain, p. 430
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