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Mar 1, 2014 · The Sumerian King List. 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 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.
The Sumerian king list: translation (In the following translation, mss. are referred to by the sigla used by Vincente 1995; from those listed there, mss.Fi, Go, P6, and WB 62 were not used; if not specified by a note, numerical data come from ms. WB.) 1-39 After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug.In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years.
prompted to resume earlier, more perfunctory studies of the Sumerian King List. 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 re
Sumerian King List, essentially corresponding to the version known from Ash. 1923.444, is the “Ur-Isin part” of the list, giving the names and the reigns of the kings of the Neo-Sumerian Ur III dynasty and of one of the Old Babylonian dynasties succeeding Ur III: The Sumerian King List, lines 341-377 úrim ki.ma ur.[dnamma] lugal.àm / mu ...
Research at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. AS 11. The Sumerian King List. AS 11. The Sumerian King List Thorkild Jacobsen. Download Terms of Use. The incentive to the studies here presented was furnished by the excavations of the Oriental Institute at Tell Asmar.
Each of the four sides is inscribed with two columns of cuneiform (wedge-like) script recording the Sumerian language. The document lists a succession of cities in Sumer and its neighbouring regions, their rulers and the length of their reigns.
