The Sumerian King List
Sumerian King List: list of rulers of ancient Sumer, used as a framework for the study of Mesopotamian chronology.
Sixteen copies (indicated as A, B, C... P) of this text are known, all of them written in Sumerian, although some of them clearly show Akkadian influence. The text appears to have been composed in the late third millennium BCE (Ur III period), and was later updated. The sequence of cities is identical to the Eridu Genesis.
The text presented here is based on version G, an octagonal prism from Larsa.
Translation
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After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu.
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