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The text is best known under its modern name Sumerian King List, which is often abbreviated to SKL in scholarly literature. A less-used name is the Chronicle of the One Monarchy, reflecting the notion that, according to this text, there could ever be only one city exercising kingship over Mesopotamia. [2]
En-men-dur-ana (also En-men-dur-an-ki, Enmenduranki) of Zimbir (the city now known as Sippar) was an ancient Sumerian king, whose name appears in the Sumerian King List as the seventh pre-dynastic king of Sumer. He was also the topic of myth and legend, said to have reigned for 21,000 years. [1] [2]
Before the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 24th century BC, Mesopotamia was fragmented into a number of city states. Whereas some surviving Mesopotamian documents, such as the Sumerian King List, describe this period as one where there was only one legitimate king at any one given time, and kingship was transferred from city to city sequentially, the historical reality was that there were ...
Lists of ancient kings are organized by region and peoples, and include kings recorded in ancient history (3000 BC – 1700 AD) and in mythology. Southern Europe [ edit ]
Names in Sumerian King Lists and monuments Name On Sumerian Kinglist Indian list names 1: First Sumerian Dynasty 3378–3349 BCE: Ukusi(kish dynasty) of Ukhu City(Result of translating ka's tomb inscription as Sargon's) or Udu, Uduin, or Odin, Indar, Indra, Induru, Dur, Pur, Sakh, Sagaga, Zagg, Gaur, Alulim, or Adar: Ikshvāku or Indra or ...
Tablet with the List of Kings of Ur and Isin (MS 1686).jpg. Īter-pīša, inscribed in cuneiform as i-te-er-pi/pi 4-ša and meaning "Her command is surpassing", [1] c. 1833–1831 BC , was the 12th king of Isin during the Old Babylonian period. The Sumerian King List [i 1] tells us that "the divine Īter-pīša ruled for 4 years."
Enmebaragesi (Sumerian: 𒂗𒈨𒁈𒄄𒋛 Enmebárgisi [EN-ME-BARA 2-GI 4-SE]; fl. c. 2750 BC) [3] originally Mebarasi (𒈨𒁈𒋛) [1] was the penultimate king of the first dynasty of Kish and is recorded as having reigned 900 years in the Sumerian King List.
Ur-nigin, also Ur-nigina (𒌨𒆸, ur-niŋin) [1] or Ur-nigar (𒌨𒉌𒃻, ur-ni-gar) was a Governor of Uruk who lived in 22nd century BCE. [2]According to the Sumerian King List, Ur-Nigin destroyed the Akkadian Empire, which had probably already be weakened by the Gutians, and established a short-lived Fifth Dynasty of Uruk.