Utu-hegal was a Sumerian king (r. ca. 2120–2112 BCE) of the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk. The Sumerian King List (SKL), a propagandistic document that was perhaps created in the Ur III Period (ca. 2112–2004 BCE), tersely mentions that Utu-hegal defeated the army of the Guti, a group mentioned in Mesopotamian sources as uncouth mountain people who had terrorized the dwellers of the Mesopotamian lowlands. The SKL continues by briefly mentioning that “Uruk was defeated and kingship was taken to Ur” as Ur-Namma, an official under Utu-hegal, who evidently took power. Interestingly, there is an inscription written by Ur-Namma, the military governor of Ur, in which he makes a dedication to the goddess Ningal for the life of Utu-hegal (clearly before the event described in the SKL). Utu-hegal claimed to be “King of the Four Quarters,” a title used by the kings of Akkad, a powerful empire that had held sway over much of the Ancient Near East. Thus, scholars have suggested that Utu-hegal may have greatly expanded his kingdom to take such a title.