Nippur de Lagash is an Argentine

Argentina

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 historic comic

Comics

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 series set on the XXIII century BC

23rd century BC

The 23rd century BC is a century which lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC.-Events:*2334 BC – 2279 BC: Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia....

 (according to the short chronology

Short chronology timeline

The short chronology is one chronology of the Near Eastern Bronze and Early Iron Age, which fixes the reign of Hammurabi to 1728 BC – 1686 BC and the sack of Babylon to 1531 BC....

), about a fiction

Fiction

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al homonym

Homonym

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 warrior of Sumer

Sumer

Sumer was a civilization and historical region in southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age....

, created by comic scriptwriter Robin Wood

Robin Wood (comics)

-Biography:Of Paraguayan-Australian origins, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil...

 and illustrated by Lucho Olivera. It was published by Columba Publishing on the D'Artagnan and later Nippur Magnum comic books from 1967 to 1998, and is considered one of the most important Argentine comics

Argentine comics

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Other comic artists who worked later on this comic are: Sergio Mulko

Sergio Mulko

Sergio Mulko is an Argentine comic artist.At a young age, he moved to Mar del Plata, from where he began publishing for the Columba Publishing house of Buenos Aires. He alternated the drawing of Nippur de Lagash with his creator, Lucho Olivera...

, Néstor Barrón

Néstor Barron

Néstor Barron was born in Buenos Aires, Argentine. He is a writer, poet and musician. He began his artistic activity very early, with his first classical guitar concerts when he was 12 years old...

, Gustavo Amézaga, Ricardo Villagrán

Ricardo Villagran

Ricardo Villagran is an Argentinian illustrator known for his work in the American comic book industry.- Early life and education :Villagran was born in the small northern city of Corrientes in 1938...

 and Jorge Zaffino

Jorge Zaffino

-Biography:Zaffino spent a lifetime working as an artist in and out of comics. At the age of 16, he began working as an unpaid apprentice at the comics studios of Ricardo and Enrique Villagran in Buenos Aires, where his father had requested that they take him on...

, among others.

Name

His parents named

Given name

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 him after the ancient city of Nippur

Nippur

Nippur was one of the most ancient of all the Sumerian cities. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind," ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone...

, where they were born. He later gained the epithet

Epithet

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 "from Lagash" after leaving his home city, Lagash

Lagash

Lagash is located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Ash Shatrah. Lagash was one of the oldest cities of the Ancient Near East...

, in forced exile

Exile

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Storyline

His adventures, loosely framed on actual history, start when Nippur, a general of Lagash, is forced to escape from Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...

 after its invasion, carried out by Lugal-Zage-Si

Lugal-Zage-Si

Lugal-Zage-Si of Umma was the last Sumerian king before the conquest of Sumer by Sargon of Akkad and the rise of the Akkadian Empire, and was considered as the only king of the third dynasty of Uruk...

. He then wanders around the bronze age

Bronze Age

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 known world, the Middle East

Middle East

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 and east Mediterranean, making friends and enemies, before taking part on the Akkadian conquest of the Fertile Crescent

Fertile Crescent

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. He thus become king of Lagash, but choose to abdicate

Abdication

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and comes back to travel.