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Sumerian King List — Langdon 1923 WB444 English study

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Langdon1923 WB444 study, printedpage 15

w-B, 1923, 444, THE SUMERO-ACCADIAN SYSTEM OF LEGENDARY AND HISTORICOL CHRONOLOGY 15 CO BEES 1 Lines 16 ff. are restored from L. No. 1 V1 ff. [nam-lugal-bi Adab-(ki)-si-ba-gin] ~ 16. [Adab-(ki)-a Lugal-an-ni-mu-un-dit] 17. (lugal-dm mu 90 ~~ ni~ ag] 18. {1 ] lugal 19. [mu-bi 90] tb-ag 20. [Adab-(ki)] ku ka-an- sig 21. {nam-lugal-bi] Ma-er-(ki)-3% ba-gin 22. [Ma-er-ki]-s* An-sir* 23. [lugal-im] mu 30 ni- ag 24, [Lugal-tar-|zi dumu An-sir- ge 25. (mu- 25(?)* ] ni- ag 26. Stele: Sere lugal mu 30 ni-ag 27. i are hi-gal mu 20 —ni-ag 28. eb es - -bi-tm mu 30 ni-ag 29. Bote saree -bi. mui 9 ni~ag 30. 6 lugatl 31. [mu-bi ] 120+16 —ni-ag 32. [Ma-er-(ki) ku] ba- an sig 33. {nam-lugal-] bi 34. [ Kis-(ki)-$u] ba-gin 35. [Ki3-(ki) Kug-* Bai 36. [munuz-galu-kas-tin-|na 37. [sugus Ki3-(ki)] mu-un-gi-na 38. [lugal-Jém mu 100 ni-ag 39. 1 lugal 40. mu~bi 100 ni- ag 41. Kis-ki ku ba- an- sig 42, nam-lugal-bi® Aksak-(ki) ba-gub 43. Aksak-su Un-24 44, lugal-ém mu 30- ni- ag 45. Un-da-lu-lu smu 6" nt ag 46. Ur-ur = mu 6 ni- ag 47. Con. VI. [Gimil-*Sahan mu 20 ni-ag] L [J-su-il mu 24 nie-ag 2. [The rulership passed to Adab]' {At Adab Lugalannimundu ]} [became king. 90 years he reigned.] 1 king? [90 years he reigned] Adab with weapons was smitten. The rulership passed to Maer. At Maer Ansir became king. He reigned 30 years. [Lugaltar]-zi, son of Ansir, reigned ..... years. eS6e teg -lugal reigned 30 years. ee a ics -li-gal reigned 20 years. Si tay od -bim. reigned 30 years. gees -bi reigned 9 years.. 6 kings They ruled’ 136 years. Maer with weapons was smitten. The rulership passed to Kish At Kish Kug-* Baw a female wine seller established the foundation of Kish and became king. She reigned 100 years. 1 king. She reigned 100 years. Kish with weapons was smitten. The rulership at AkSak was established. At AkS8ak Unzi became king. He reigned 30 years. Undalulu reigned 6 years. Ur-ur reigned 6 years. Gimil-*Shahan reigned 20 years. Ishu-il reigned 24 years. 2 The local records of Adab mention two more kings Mebasi and Lugaldalu. See Cambridge Ancient: History, Vol. I p. 370; AJSL. 30, 221 and Bangs, Bismya. 3 L. No. 1-V 10 Ma-er-(ki)-a. 5 Restored from total in 1. 32. 4 An-bu ; An-sud possible. 6 Here begins the Scuenm Dynastic Tablet, Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Inscriptions, 1911, 606 ff. ; ['mvarau-Danein, La Chronologie des Dynasties de Sumer et d'Accad, 59-60; now in the British Museum; see aapp, The Early Dynasties of Sumer and Akkad, B. M. 108857, Pls. 1-2. 1 Scheil. Tablet, 12 years. The number is doubled there.

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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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