Some choice ware of the latter type was manufactured by him in Kish, by order of the feudal chief of that province.
From the inscriptions found at Tello, it appears that Lagash was a city of great importance in the Sumerian period, some time probably in the 4th millennium B.C. It was at that time ruled by independent kings, Ur-Nina and his successors, who were engaged in contests with the Elamites on the east and the kings of Kengi and Kish on the north.
It is true that the prophets absorbed the old seers, and that the Israelites, as we see in the case of the asses of Kish, went to their seers on the same kind of occasions as sent heathen nations to seers or diviners.
It may be that some of the early north Babylonian kingdoms, such as Kish, extended control thither.
He took up his abode in the Transoxianian province of Kish and Nakhshab, where he gathered around him a great number of adherents.