Sumerian King List
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sumerian-king-list-167-18219511
title:
Sumerian King List
text:
The Sumerian King List 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. It does so by repetitively listing Sumerian cities, the kings that ruled there, and the lengths of their reigns. Especially in the early part of the list, these reigns often span thousands of years. In th
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ancient text listing Sumerian Kingships
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List
date created:
2002-07-28T06:27:09Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T19:09:00Z
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