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Map of Iraq showing the archaeological sites where clay tablets containing (parts of) the Sumerian King List have been found. The Sumerian King List is known from a number of different sources, all in the form of clay tablets or cylinders and written in Sumerian .
English: Cuneiform writing on a clay brick, written in the Sumerian language (during the time of the Akkadian empire), and listing all kings from the creation of kingship until 1800 BC when the list was created.
Sumer (/ ˈ s uː m ər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Said on the SKL to have held the title of "king" of not just Kish; but, all of Sumer; According to the SKL: Sargon of Akkad was his cup-bearer; Akkadian period (c. 2334 – c. 2154 BC) 3rd Zimudar 𒍣𒈬𒁯 Uncertain (30 years) Said on the SKL to have held the title of, "King" of not just Kish; but, to have held the "Kingship" over all of Sumer
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In Uruk, in southern Mesopotamia, Sumerian civilization seems to have reached its creative peak. This is pointed out repeatedly in the references to this city in religious and, especially, in literary texts, including those of mythological content; the historical tradition as preserved in the Sumerian king-list confirms it.
This debate has been called the "Sumerian problem" or "Sumerian question". The starting point of this debate was that the oldest cuneiform tablets were written in Sumerian, and that earlier pictographical tablets from the Late Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods (3200-3000 BC) were likely written in the same language.
Mesopotamia in the time of Hammurabi. Larsa (Sumerian: 𒌓𒀕𒆠, romanized: UD.UNUG KI, [1] read Larsam ki [2]), also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon (Gk. Λαραγχων) by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult of the sun god Utu with his temple E-babbar.