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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.
The Tummal Inscription, one of the Babylonian Chronicles, is a writing of ancient Sumer from the time of the ruler Ishbi-Erra. [12] The writing lists the names of the rulers that built the temples dedicated to Enlil within Nippur [ 13 ] and temples of Ninlil in Tummal, [ 12 ] [ 14 ] amongst whom were the king of Kish, Enmebaragesi and his heir ...
Meskiagnun, also Mesh-ki-ang-Nanna (Sumerian: 𒈩𒆠𒉘𒉣, Meskiag̃nun [mes-ki-aÅ‹â‚‚-nun], also ð’€ð’ˆ©ð’† 𒉘𒉣𒈾, Meskiag̃nunna [D mes-ki-aÅ‹â‚‚-nun-na]; fl. c. 2550 BC), was the fourth lugal or king of the First Dynasty of Ur, according to the Sumerian King List, which states he ruled for 36 years.
The palace at Tummal included funerary chapels for Ur-Nammu (e Tum-ma-al Ur-d Namma) and his wife. His wife is known to have been named SI . A.tum, read as Watartum. [23] Building materials came from as far away as Babylon, Kutha, and Adab. [24] The ki-a-nag, or funerary offerings for Ur III ruler Ur-Nammu were carried out at Tummal.
[5] [6] [7] The Kishite king ruled the city at its peak, probably reaching beyond the territory of Kish, including Umma and Zabala. [ 1 ] The Sumerian poem Gilgamesh and Aga records the Kishite siege of Uruk after its lord Gilgamesh refused to submit to Aga, ending in Aga's defeat and consequently the fall of Kish's hegemony.
The Tummal Inscription records the first king to build a temple to Enlil as Enmebaragesi, the predecessor of Gilgamesh, around 2500 BC. [4] Ekur is generally associated with the temple at Nippur restored by Naram-Sin of Akkad and Shar-Kali-Sharri during the Akkadian Empire. It is also the later name of the temple of Assur rebuilt by Shalmaneser ...
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Ubara-tutu (or Ubartutu) of Shuruppak was the last antediluvian king of Sumer, according to some versions of the Sumerian King List. He was said to have reigned for 18,600 years (5 sars and 1 ner). He was the son of En-men-dur-ana, a Sumerian mythological figure often compared to Enoch, as he entered heaven without dying.