page_title: Lugal
section_title: Cuneiform
hierarchical_section_title: Lugal / Cuneiform
caption_attribution_description: English: Lugal in archaic and early cuneiform on the Lugaldalu statue
context_page_description: Lugal is the Sumerian term for "king, ruler". Literally, the term means "big man." In Sumerian, lu "𒇽" is "man" and gal "𒃲" is "great," or "big."
  It was one of several Sumerian titles that a ruler of a city-state could bear. The sign eventually became the predominant logograph for "King" in general. In the Sumerian language, lugal is used to mean an owner or a head.
  As a cuneiform logograph LUGAL.
context_section_description: The cuneiform sign LUGAL 𒈗 (Borger nr. 151, Unicode U+12217) serves as a determinative in cuneiform texts (Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite), indicating that the following word is the name of a king. In Akkadian orthography, it may also be a syllabogram šàr, acrophonically based on the Akkadian for "king", šarrum.
caption: "Lugal" in archaic and early cuneiform on the Lugal-dalu statue
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