Shar-Kali-Sharri, who had ascended the throne of…
2133 BCE to 2122 BCE
“Then who was king? Who was the king? Igigi, Imi, Nanum, Ilulu: four of them ruled for only three years.”
The Akkadian Empire had began to crumble during the reign of Shar-kali-sharri from the invasion of mountain tribesmen called the Guti, who infiltrate Akkad from the region between the Tigris and the Zagros Mountains to the east.
The Guti may be an Indo-European speaking people, possibly related linguistically to the Tocharians or to the modern Kurdish people, or may be speakers of a Caucasian tongue.
Dudu, becoming king in about 2130, ends the period of relative anarchy.