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Sumerian King List
Sumerian King List — Langdon 1923 WB444 English study
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Langdon1923 WB444 study, printedpage 25
w-B. 1923, 444. THE SUMERO-ACCADIAN SYSTEM OF LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY 25 TABLE OF. KINGS. NaMEs YEars Date ConTEMPORARY RULERS, ETC. ‘2. Ur-gigir 6 - Patesis of Lagash 8. Kudda . 6 _‘Urgar. 4, Gimil-ili 5 Nammahni. 5. Ur-*Babbar 6 Ur-Ninsun. Total 5 kings 30 years GuTIUM . 2597 1. Imta 3 , 2. Inkisu 6 Gudea (2550) 3. Nikillagab 6 “4. Sulmé 6 5. Elulumes 6 6. Inimabakes 5 7... IgeSaus 6° 8. Jarlagab 15 9. Ibate 3 10. Jarla(gas) 3 Ur-Ningirsu. 11. Kurum 1 195° Schein nedin 8 igs dyes rabum 2 14. Trarum 2 15. Ibranum 1 16. Hablum 2 t?. Gimil-Sin 7 18. Jarlaganda 7 1 Pe Berm er ere 7 20. Tiriga(n) 40 days. Total 21 (20) kings 125 years, 40: days 2s Ererca (5) 2472 Utuhegal 71/6+ 7 days ‘ Ur (3) : 1. Ur-4+Nammu 18 2465 | Patesis of Lagash 2. Dungi .. 46 (47) 2447 Urabba 8. Bur-tSin 9 2401 4. Gimil-tSin 9 2398 Ur-lama 5. Ibi--Sin 26 (24) (25) .2384 Total 5 kings 108 years 4 Text has 420 years and seven days on the more natural rendering of the figures. Thet is clearly impossible and consequently s4-5¢ must be taken as an error or read one sixth.
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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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