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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. )
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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.
- 𒉆𒈗 (Nam-Lugal "Kingship").
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Sumerian King List: list of rulers of ancient Sumer, used as a framework for the study of Mesopotamian chronology. Sixteen copies (indicated as A, B, C... P) of this text are known, all of them written in Sumerian, although some of them clearly show Akkadian influence.
The Sumerian king list ( 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.
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- DERIVATION FROM A SINGLE ORIGINAL
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THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
JOHN ALBERT WILSON & THOMAS GEORGE ALLEN • EDITORS THE SUMERIAN KING LIST THE
THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Internet publication of this work was made possible with the generous support of Misty and Lewis Gruber
X PREFACE Of inestimable value has been the interest and painstaking care which Dr. T. George Allen and his associates on the editorial staff of the Oriental Insti tute have shown in dealing with this volume. I wish especially to emphasize my feeling of deep indebtedness to Mrs. Ruth S. Brookens, with whom every point of both style and argument has...
A comparison of the texts listed above will show extensive and detailed agreement between them both in form and in content. The names of the rulers, their mutual order, the distribution of the names over the dynasties, and the order in which the dynasties appear are virtually the same in all the texts. A similar fundamental agreement is found in th...
THE POSTDILUVIAN SECTION The genealogy of versions derived from a common original has to be de termined through a study of textual variants and their distribution among the versions. But our manuscripts of the King List give opportunity for such study only to a very limited degree. The majority are small fragments. It is therefore relatively seldom...
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In the preceding sections we have tried to trace the main lines in that proc ess of tradition which separates the first edition of the King List from the late copies of it which are all we have preserved. It is therefore natural to consider next the problems which center around this first edition, the original of the King List. When and where was i...
WITHOUT - n - "he constructed for him" "he built" "who built" "he built for him" "he brought back for him" "he confirmed for him" "he presented to him" 'he built for him" "he prepared for him" "he presented to him" "he brought into it for him" "he built" "(when) he built" oi.uchicago.edu
While a number of indications in the King List point to when it was written, very little can be said about where it originated. It is hardly possible to do more than make a plausible guess. Since it is obviously easiest to get hold of sources for the history and older rulers of a city in that city itself, we can perhaps conclude that the city in wh...
The results at which we have arrived in the foregoing pages have given us a general idea of the sources which the author of the King List had at his dis posal and have shown us the manner in which he utilized them. We should accordingly be in a position to judge the historical value of his finished work, the King List. Considering the King List and...
The table which we have drawn up cannot, of course, claim absolute exacti tude. In correlating the sources we often had to reckon with a small margin of error, and in several sections we had to use average figures for the reigns. These possible inexactitudes can, however, have influenced only the details. The main lines of the scheme are not depend...
SUMERIAN KING LIST. Ancient political spin. This clay prism is one of the most important records from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Each of the four sides is inscribed with two columns of cuneiform (wedge-like) script recording the Sumerian language.
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. ETCSL subcorpus. Catalogue of available compositions and translations. 2.1.1 The Sumerian king list: transliteration | translation. 2.1.2 The rulers of Lagaš: transliteration | translation. 2.1.3 The history of the Tummal: transliteration | translation.
