Sumerian King List

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12 . _ WELD-BLUNDELL COLLECTION VOL. II 11. mu 420 ni- ag | ‘| 11. He reigned 420 years. 12. *Lugal-banda (da) sib "| 12, The deified Lugalbanda, a shepherd, 13. mu 1200 ne ag ; 13. reigned 1200 years. 14. *Dumu-zi su-HA-GUNU 14. The defied Dumuzi'‘, a fisherman, 15. eri-ki-ni = Ha-biir-(ki) 15. whose city was Habur? 16. mu 100 ni-ag 16. reigned 100 years. 17. 4 Gibil-ga-mes 17. Gilgame3, 18. ab-ba-ni lil-la : 18. whose father was a fool, * 19. en Kullab-ba-ge 19. the lord of Kullab, 20. mu 126 ni-ag 20. reigned 126 years. 21. Ur-* Nun-gal‘ 21. Ur-4Nungal * 22. dumu *% Gibil-ga-mes 22. son of Gilgame’ 23. mu 30 “ni- ag 28. reigned 30 years. 24. Utul’-kalam-ma 24. Utulkalamma, 25. dumu Ur-* Nun-gal-ge 25. son of Ur-*Nungal, 26. mu 15 nme ag 26. reigned 15 years. 27. La-ba~ e- w 27. Labasher 28. mu 9 ni- ag 28. reigned 9 years. 29. En-nun-nad-an-na 29. Ennunnadanna 30. mu 8 ni - ag | 30. reigned 8 years. 31. ? ge-de mu 36 ni-ag 31. ..... he-de reigned 36 years. 82. Me-lam-an-na 82. Melamanna _ 33. mu 6 ni- ag 38. reigned 6 years 34. Lugal-ki-aga’ mu 36 ni-ag 34. Lugal-kiaga reigned 36 years. 35. 12 lugal 35. 12 kings. 86. mu-bi 1800-+-480-+ 30 tb-ag 36. They reigned 2310 years. * 37. Unug-(ki) %ku ba-an-sig 37. Erech was smitten by weapons. t Identified with an older deity Ab-%, the dying god of Sumerian religion. 2 A title of Eridu. 3 Lil-la means “ the fool, imbecile, cripple ”. This explains the story in Aelian, De Natura Animalium XII 21. Here it is said that Seuéchoros, king ot the Babylonians, heard how the Chaldeans (i. e. Astrologers) prophesied that his daughter would bear a child and that this child would seize the kingdom from his grand- father. Seuéchoros played the part of Acrisius in the Greek myth. He locked his daughter in the citadel but she secretly bore a son by an obscure man, and the king’s guards in terror threw the child from the tower. An eagle perceived his fall and seized him by the back before he reached the earth. The bird carried the babe to a garden where the gardener loved him and reared him. This child was Gilgamos and he became king. Seuéchoros, as Sayce observes, is a corruption for En-me-(r)-kar. It is obvious that the name of the father of - Gilgamis Lilla, the fool, reveals the origin of the story in Aelian. In the GilgamiS Epic his mother is reputed to have been the mother goddess Ninsun. It is possible that lil-la is really a title of Tammuz who in the - Louvre hymn, RA. 19, 175-185 is called mu-lu-lil, “ the fool god ”, and that Tammuz is really the father of Gilgamis here. The story in Aelian may have been concocted to explain the word Jil-la, but the connection of ’ Enmekar with this tale rather proves the historical veracity of the tale. 4 This name is written [Ur-¢.Nun-]lugal, PBS. V No. 6, 5. 5 The name is common among Sumerians; v. Huser, Per. Namen, 81-2. § One sign « + idl; cf. u-tal, shepherd, Gaicze, Yale V 4 X 7. 1 Cf. Epeninc, KAR 132 I, 8-9; ina mukhi ki-aga-zi-da ana imitti @Anim ussab. 8 This addition is correct.