An-am (AN-am<sub>3</sub>) (also Dingiram or Anam; died 1816 BC) was a ruler of the Old Babylonian period city of Uruk. He took the titles of "Shepard of Uruk" and "Army Chief of Uruk". An-am is known to be the father of the succeeding ruler Irdanene from the latter's year name "... brought a statue in gold representing Dingiram his father into the temple of Nanaia". Unlike the rest of the dynasty, An-am and Irdanene had Sumerian names. A royal hymn to An-am was found at Uruk. He restored the temples of An and Inanna "the ancient work of divine Ur-Nammu and Sulgi".
From one inscription found at Uruk we know that he was the son of IlÃÂn-à ¡emeàand that he rebuilt the city wall of Uruk.
In another inscription he records building a temple for the goddess Kanisurra, called the "mistress of the Iturungal", with the Iturungal being a major canal in Sumer.
Several of An-am's year names are known:
In a letter to ruler of Babylon Sin-Muballit, An-am reminds him that they are both of "one house" ie. from the Yaminite tribe of Amnanum. Sîn-kÃÂà ¡id, the founder of the 6th Dynasty of Uruk, took as a title "King of the Amnanum (Tribe)" (lugal am-na-nu-um) as did the third ruler, Sîn-gÃÂmil.
A few of the inscriptions of An-am are thought to have antedated his reign. In two inscriptions of An-am from the rule of Sîn-gÃÂmil on the construction of a temple for the god Nergal in the city of Uá¹£arpara close with "Anam, archivist, son of IlÃÂn-à ¡emeÃÂ, built this temple". The location of Uá¹£arpara is unknown.
A millennium later an inscribed barrel cylinder of Babylonian ruler Marduk-apla-iddina II records rebuilding a "house of the god Ningishzida" in Uruk built by An-am.