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Sumerian King List — Langdon 1923 WB444 English study

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Langdon1923 WB444 study, printedpage 14

14 25. - 48. 15. WELD-BLUNDELL COLLECTION VOL. II mu 6 su-3i [ni- ag] reigned 360 years. 26. Ka-al-bu- [um ] 26. Kalbum 27. dumu Méd-gal-gal'...... 27. son of Magalgal.... 28. mu 180°+15 ni- ag 28. reigned 195 years (1215 ?). 29. Umus-e mu 360 ni- ag 29. Umuie reigned 360 years. 30. 2? “nun-na mu 180 ni-ag 30. ...-nunna reigned 180 years, - 81. I-bi~ ni-is (?) 81. Ibinis (?) 82. mu 240-+50 ni-ag 32. reigned 290 years. 38. lugal-mu mu 360 ni-ug 33. Lugalmu (?) reigned 360 years. 34, 8 lugal 34, 8 kings. 85. mu-bi 3000 -+-180-+15 ib-ag -35. They reigned 3195 years. * 36. Ki3-(ki) %*ku ba-an- sig 36. Kish was smitten by weapons. 37. nam-lugal-bi 37. The rulership . 38. Ha-ma-si-(ki)-3i ba- gin 38. passed to Hamasi. * 89. Ha-ma-si® Ha-da-ni-is 7 39. At Hamasi Hadanig - 40. mu 6 Su-8i ni- ag 40. ruled 360 years. ' Al. 1 lugat 41. 1 king 42. mu-bi 6 3wsi® ib- ag 42. He reigned 360 years. 48. Ha-ma-si-(ki) ku ba-an-sig 43. Hamasi by weapons was smitten. 44, nam-lugal-bi Unug-(ki)-3% ba-gin 44, The rulership passed to Erech. 45. Unug-(ki)-ga En-tig-du-an-na 45. At Erech Enugduanna 46. Tugal-dm mu 1 su-si ni-ag 46. became king. He ruled 60 years. 47. nam-lugal-bi mu 2 su-si ni-ag 47. The kingship for 120 years was exercised mu 480 ni- ag 48, For 420 years they ruled. ° Vv. Deh oes Sah, ee clas Re igs BR oda at Sou lig “fl Mi 45, RnR Nee 8 dle [putida 4 et oo SO? MDs Eo dh ee eee ee Bh Me 12. [mu ? nie ag . ] 12. ? years he ruled. 13. [ ? lugal ] 13. '? kings (14. [mu-bi ? ib-ag] 14, ? years they ruled [Uri(ki) ku da-an- sig ] 15. [Ur by Weapons was smitten]. t This neme is written Md-md-gal.... in 1. 24. Which is right ? * Perhaps error for 600 -+- 600. 3 PISAN + RU? 4 L. No. 1, IV 3 has 3600 + 180 -+- 12 = 3792. The length of the second reign is missing here, but it is . difficult to account for the high figure in the total unless the numbers be corrected. 5 L. No. 1 IV 7, Ha-ma-zi. 6 L. No. 1 IV 8, Ha-ma-zi-(ki)-a. 7 Here L. No. 1 1V 10 adds lugal-am. *, In the total on P. No. 2 XI 22 for Hamasi the text has the figure 7 which Poebel took for 7 units but it may be 7(60) = 420. ® P, No. 2 had three names here, see p, 6. En-ug-du-an-na is probably ‘an error for En-Sag-kus-an-na, whose inscription on a vase of Nippur has been restored by Porser, PBS. IV 151. The other two names are - probably Lugal-ki-gub-ni-lag and Lugal-kisal-si, SAK. 157; Cambridge Ancient History, 369.

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Recorded completeness: Complete supplied Langdon1923Englishstudy of the WeldBlundellSumerianKingListprismWB444, printed1–27: introduction, parallelhistoricaltransliteration/Englishtranslation, dynastic tables and contemporary notes. OtherSinIdinnam/HammurabiinscriptionsandcuneiformplateOCR areexcluded. Historicalreadings/regnalfiguresandrawtableOCR retained evenwhere corrupted; no moderncorrectionornewtranslation. This is the specific historicalWB444printing, not modernETCSL/Jacobsen1939 or allvariantKingListwitnesses. Sourcepageorderandchapterboundariesretained.. Available reading sections are listed below.

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