Sumerian King List

Langdon1923 WB444 study, printedpage 9

w-B. 1923, 444. THE SUMERO-ACCADIAN SYSTEM OF LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY 9 27. lugal-im mu 21000 ni-ag was king and ruled 21000 years. 28. 1 lugal 28. One king 29. mu-bi 21000 ib-ag 29. He ruled 21000 years. 80. Zimbar-(ki) ba-sub-bi-en 30. Sippar was overthrown. 31. nam-lugal-bi Suruppak-(ki)' ba-gub 31. The rulership was established at Shuruppak. 32. Suruppak-(ki) Ubur-du-du * 82. At Shuruppak Ubardudu 83. - lugal-iém = mu 18600 ni-ag 33. was king and ruled 18600 ‘years. 34, ‘1 lugat 34. One king 35. mu-bi 18600 ib- ag 35. He ruled 18600 years. 36. 5 ert-ki-me-e$ 36. Five cities 37. 8 lugal 37, Eight kings. 88. mu sar-1-gal*—+ 3600 X7 ib-ag 38. They ruled 241.200 years. 89. a-ma-ru ba-tir-ra-ta ; 39. The Deluge came up (upon the Land). 40. egir a-ma-ru ba-ur-ra-ta 40. After the Deluge had come, 41. nam-lugal an-ta é-dé-a-ba 41, The rulership which descended from heaven. (Sic !) 42. Kis-(ki) nam-lugal-la 42. At Kish there was the rulership. 43, Ki3-(ki) ‘Ga- ur’ 43. At Kish Ga-ur 44, lugal-im 44, became king. 45, mu 1200. ni-ag 45. He ruled 1200 years. 46. Gul-la-*Nidaba-an-na...... EL ° 46. Gulla-Nidaba-anna..... 47, mu 600-+ 3860 ni-ag 47. reigned 960 years 1 Written SU + KUR + RU. Var. 62 SU + KUR + LAM an unusual form midway between the old sign REC. 190bis and the form Britnnow, 9049. ® The Var. W-B. 62 has Ubur-tu-tu, and the Semitic legend, Epic of Gilgamish, XI 23 Ubar-tu-tu. Ubdur, woman’s breast, is clearly a cognate of Ubar, protégé, mercy, protection, “ The protégé or protected of Tutu ”. Du-du, Tu-tu, is a title of an ancient deity later identified with Marduk. See Poéme du Paradis 132 n. 2 and my note on Epic of Creation VII 9. Cf. the Sumerian name Du-du, for Du-du-lag, “ Dudu has made sure ” Genourttac, TSA., 109; see Huser, Personennamen, 195. 8 sar-1-gal or sar-gal-1 occurs in CT. 12, 24 II 6 after sar-Sus (3600 < 60 = 216.000) and seems to be a higher order in the numerical system. Here it is identical with the sar-Sus = 216.000. The sar-gal is also equal to 21.600 in the Hilprecht mathematical tablets. Tuurcau-Danein, RA. 18, 125 on the basis of CT. 12, 24, supposed that the sar-gal = 60' or 12,960,000 but this is no longer tenable. Undoubtedly the sar-gal 2 of CT, 12, 24 II 7 is the same as the sar-gal-Su-nu-tag = 60‘ of the Hilprecht tablets. See Sum. Grammar, p. 120 n. 1. ‘ This was the established Sumerian phrase to describe the “ entering , of the Deluge. See ‘PBS, Vi Col. V 4, a-ma-ru kalam-ma ba-an-ur-ra, The Deluge entered on the Land (for seven days and seven nights). (Enlil) a-ma-ru ba-an-ir = abuba ultedi’t, caused the Deluge to enter, SBP. 260, 19; Ninurta is ordinarily regarded as the god who sent the Flood, a-ma-ru tr-ra = musbii abubu, SBP, 232, 8; ef. Hrozni, Ninrag, p- 8, 9-14 and Eseninc, KAR, No.-12, 10 f For ur = ba'u, cf. IV R. 19 No. 3, Obv. 7, ba-an-tr = ib-ta~'a. 5 Possibly a small sign gone before ga(MAL). The name should correspond to Evewxius of ‘Aléxanitey Polyhistor, Cory, Ancient Fragments, 59 and Edijyxiog of Syncellus, p. 67, which Gurscumpr corrected: to Edyxopo¢ ; v. Zimmenn, KAT’, 565 n. 3. In any case ga-ur proves that ...... xopog is right. I can see no traces in the slight break before MAL, and do not believe that any thing is missing. Polyhistor after Berossus gave his reign at 2400 years. 6 The name has little resemblance to XwydoByAog, Comosbelus, .second king after the Flood in Sycellus ind Polyhistor, who assigned 2700 years to this reign. Sayce suggests that Kulla or xvdda was corrupted to copa in the Greek script. A reading Gulla-ezen-an-na- ...... is possible. ?