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Sumerian King List
Sumerian King List — Langdon 1923 WB444 English study
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Langdon1923 WB444 study, printedpage 22
22 . ¢ WELD-BLUNDELL COLLECTION VOL. iH TABLE OF KINGS. Names YEARS : Namzs YEARS ; Kisx (1) Erxcu (1) 1. Ga-ur 1200 1. Meskemgager 325 2. Gulla-Nidaba(ezen)-an-na... 960 2. Enme(r)kar 420 3. 3. Lugalbanda 1200 4, 4. Dumuzi 100 By Bava) See ote Fass 5. Gilgame’ 126. 6. Bu-*EN-ZU?) savas 6. Ur-*Nungal 30 7. Gallibum 960 7. Utulkalamma . 15 8. Kalumumu 840 8. Labager 9 9. Duggagib 900 9. Ennunnadanna 8 10. Atab 600: 10.) ea ans hede = 36 11. Atabba 840 11. Melamanna 6 12... Arpium 720 12. Lugalkiaga 36 13. Etana ‘ 1500 i ——————— 14. Balih 400 Total 12 kings 2310 years 15. Enmenunna | 660 16. Melam-Kish 900 (17. Barsalmunna 1200 18. Tupzah 140 Ur (1) 19. Tizkar 306 pce 20. kh mere 77 1. seuiprasl ei 80 (circa 4000) 91, ‘Tiesadum 1200 2. Meskem-“Nannar 36 22. Enmenbaragigur 900 8. Eluin a 23. Agga - 625 4, Balulu 36 Total 23 kings 24510 years, 3 Total 4 kings 177 years months, 3 days Names YEARS Date JONTEMPORARY RULEES, ETC. Awan ; circa . . 3900 ~ Period of geometrical pottery well advanced. Linear writing signs in 3.. Ku-ewl......, 36 use and probably much earlier. Early Total 3 kings 356 years cylinder. seals. Animal file motif in ‘stone carving... Mesilim possibly belongs to Awan dynasty. Kisx (2) circa So Bao ook fecal oe AOR. stn: 2. Dadasig Oke eo
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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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