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The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC.
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Feb 5, 2024 · The Sumerian King List is an ancient stone tablet that was originally written in the Sumerian language. It lists the kings of Sumer (an ancient civilization in southern Iraq) and neighboring lands, how long they supposedly ruled for, and where their kingdoms were located.
Jul 30, 2022 · An ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, the Sumerian King List is a register of the kings of Sumer (ancient southern Iraq) from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties. The list includes their names, supposed reign lengths, and the locations of “official” kingship.
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The Sumerian king list is a compilation of names, places, and wholly fabulous dates and exploits, apparently edited to show and promote time-hallowed oneness of kingship in the face of the splintered city-states of the period.
The main ideas embodied in the present work took shape that season in the evenings, after days spent in the houses and among the remains of the periods with which the King List deals. The detailed working-out and repeated testing of these ideas have occupied much of the author's time in the years since then.
Mar 1, 2014 · The Sumerian King List (SKL) dates from around 2100 BCE—near the time when Abram was in Ur. Most ANE scholars (following Jacobsen) attribute the original form of the SKL to Utu-hejel, king of Uruk, and his desire to legiti-mize his reign after his defeat of the Gutians.
The highly important Sumerian king list was written in Sumerian cuneiform on clay tablets, with the first version probably appearing during the Ur III Period (circa 2150-2000 BC). The list presumed to detail the dominant, and 'official', kings from the beginning of history - when kingship was first handed down from Heaven.
