Editing Damnatio memoriae (section)

=== Ancient Mesopotamia ===
According to [[Stefan Zawadzki]], the oldest known examples of such practices come from around 3000–2000 BC. He cites the example of [[Lagash]] (an ancient city-state founded by the [[Sumer]]ians in southern [[Mesopotamia]]), where preserved inscriptions concerning a conflict with another city-state, [[Umma]], do not mention the ruler of Umma, but describe him as "the man of Umma", which Zawadzki sees as an example of deliberate degradation of the ruler of Umma to the role of an unworthy person whose name and position in history the rulers of Lagash did not want to record for posterity.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zawadzki |first=Stefan |author-link=Stefan Zawadzki |url=https://przystanekhistoria.pl/pa2/tematy/polityka-historyczna/36430,Damnatio-memoriae-w-europejskiej-kulturze-politycznej.html |title=Damnatio memoriae w europejskiej kulturze politycznej |date=2011 |publisher=IPN |isbn=978-83-61336-45-7 |editor-last=Gałaj-Dempniak |editor-first=Renata |language=pl |trans-title=Damnatio memoriae in European political culture |chapter=Puścić w niepamięć, zachować złą pamięć: władcy w asyryjskich inskrypcjach królewskich w pierwszym tysiącleciu przed Chr. |trans-chapter=Letting go, keep a bad memory: rulers in Assyrian royal inscriptions in the first millennium BC. |editor-last2=Okoń |editor-first2=Danuta |editor-last3=Semczyszyn |editor-first3=Magdalena}}</ref>