Sumerian King List

Langdon1923 WB444 study, printedpage 16

16 WELD-BLUNDELL COLLECTION VOL. II 3. Genie: ‘Sin dumu I-su-il-ge 7 mu 3. Gimil-Sin son of Ishu-il reigned 7 years. ni-ag | 4, [ 6 lugal ] 4, 6 kings. 5. [mu-bi 93 in-ag *] 5. They reigned 93 years. 6. Aksak ku [ba- an- * sig] 6. AkSak with weapons was smitten. 7. nam-lugal-bi 7. The rulership 8. Kis-(kt)-3u ba- gin 8. passed to Kish. * 9. Kis-(ki) Gimil-* Sin 9. At Kish Gimil-Sin, 10. dumu Kug-* Ba-d-ge 10. son of Kug-*Bau, ll. lugal-dm mu 25 ni- ag ‘11, became king. He ruled 25 years 12. Ur-“-Iibaba 12. Ur-lIbaba 13. [dum] Gimil-2-Sin-ge 13. son of Gimil-Sin 14,0 mu 400 ni~ag 14, reigned 400 years.’ 15. [Zi-m]u-dar-ra mu 30 ni-ag 15. Zimu-dar reigned 30 years. 16. U-si-wa-tar* mu 7 nt-ag 16. Usi-watar reigned 7 years. ° 17, Asdar-mu-ti mu 11 ni-ag 17. Ashdarmuti reigned 11 years. 18, Is-{......]-* Babbar mu 11 ni-ag 18. Ish-me(?)-’Shamash reigned 11 years. 19. Na-an-ni-ja-ah’ mu 7 ni-ag -19. Nannijah reigned 7 years. 20. 7 lugal® 20. ‘seven kings. 21. mu-bi 491° 1b- ag 21. They reigned 491 years. 22. Kis-(ki) ku ba- an-_ sig 22. Kish was smitten with weapons. 23. nam-lugal-bi Unug-(ki) ba-gin 23. The rulership passed to Erech. 24. Unug-(ki)-ga Lugal-zag-gi-si 24, At Evrech Lugalzaggisi became king. 25. lugal-dm mu 25 ni-ag 25. He ruled 25 years. 26. 1 lugal: 26. 1 king. 27. mu 25 ni-ag 27. He ruled 25 years. 28. Unug-(ki) %ku ba-an- sig 28. Erech was smitten with weapons. 29. nam-lugal-bi ; 29. The rulership 30. A-ga-dé-(ki)-su ba- gin 30. passed to Agade. ! S. Obv. 7 has 99 years, and the verb is correctly written in the plural in-ag-med. 8 Here the Scheil Tablet enters the earlier reign of Kug-Bau at Kish. This queen’s reign is almost exactly the same length as that of the entire intervening Aksak dynasty and she cannot possibly be regarded as the mother of Gimil-Sin, unless she reigned as contemporary of the Aksak kings. Moreover the Scheil Tablet makes the two kingdoms of Kish continuous. : 3 The Scheil Tablet has the figure 6 which is, therefore, taken as 6(60) or 360 in the reckoning. With Kug-Bau this dynasty totals exactly 540 years instead of the. figures 540 + 40 -+ 6 in line 18. Lecrar, No 1 VI also 360 + 40 (?). 4 Son of Zimu-dar on the Scheil Tablet. Cf. P. No. 3 R. I 2-[sé ete.]. 5S. Obv. 14 has 6 years. ® S. Obv. 16, I-mu. The variant is difficult to explain. i-mu is probably a Sumerian verbal form, 7 prefix and mu = mus, gif = Semi; cf. gis-tug, mus-tug = Semt. 1S. Obv. 17, Na-ni-ia-ab, 8 Here Var. S. has 8 kings by combining the two Kish dynasties. Obviously they belong together and the AkSak dynasty was contemporary with Kug-4.Bau. , 9 586 on S. Obv. 18. 49, The total is correct. For the reign of Ur-Ilbaba the original had ebay ne % oF 6 %s which the scribe misunderstood. This yields 97 2/3 years for the entre dynasty.