vol. 36, Issue #1

Online Journal Article: "REINVESTIGATING THE ANTEDILUVIAN SUMERIAN KING LIST" - R. K. HARRISON* JETS 36/1 (March 1993) 3-8

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/36/36-1/JETS_36-1_003-008_Harrison.pdf

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Complete article may be found here:
https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/36/36-1/JETS_36-1_003-008_Harrison.pdf

"REINVESTIGATING THE ANTEDILUVIAN
SUMERIAN KING LIST" -
R. K. HARRISON*
JETS 36/1 (March 1993) 3-8

Excerpt:
Of the many fascinating and instructive artifacts that have been recovered from sites in Iraq where flourishing Sumerian cities once stood, few
have been more intriguing than a prism now in the Weld-Blundell collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. Known more popularly as the Sumerian King List, it is held to have been compiled from as
many as fifteen different texts.1
The King List traces the rulers of certain Sumerian cities in succession
and is of immense value because it contains some very old traditions while
at the same time furnishing an important chronological framework for the
antediluvian period of the Near East.2
The original form of the List is
thought to have gone back to Utu-Hegal, king of Uruk, perhaps about
2000 BC, but who was certainly flourishing during the early stages of the
celebrated Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2070-1960 BC --from the first page of the article