A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical TextsThe Beginning and the End of the Sumerian King List
A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: The Beginning and the End of the...
Friberg, Jöran
2007-01-01 00:00:00
The Beginning and the End of the Sumerian King List 9.1. The Sumerian King List The “Sumerian King List” is the name given to a literary composition, written in Sumerian, listing a long succession of Sumerian cities alleged to have been invested for longer or briefer periods with nam.luga l ‘the kingship’, the names of the kings of the corresponding dynasties, and the individual lengths of their reigns. The content of the king list is known, in diverse variants, from a number of clay tablets, or fragments of clay tablets, most of them Old Babylonian (see below). Since 1999, a compilated edition of the king list is published online as a part of the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk), in the form of both a transliteration (c.2.1.1) and a translation (t.21.1). The main source for the compilated version is the text of Ash. 1923.444 (also called WB 444, or the “Weld-Blundell prism”), a relatively well preserved four-sided prism with two columns on each face. An interesting, although now somewhat outdated discussion of the Sumerian King List can be found in Jacobsen, AS 11 (1939). The end of the Sumerian King List, essentially corresponding to the version known
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A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical TextsThe Beginning and the End of the Sumerian King List
The Beginning and the End of the Sumerian King List 9.1. The Sumerian King List The “Sumerian King List” is the name given to a literary composition, written in Sumerian, listing a long succession of Sumerian cities alleged to have been invested for longer or briefer periods with nam.luga l ‘the kingship’, the names of the kings of the corresponding dynasties, and the individual lengths of their reigns. The content of the king list is known, in diverse variants, from a number of clay tablets, or fragments of clay tablets, most of them Old Babylonian (see below). Since 1999, a compilated edition of the king list is published online as a part of the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk), in the form of both a transliteration (c.2.1.1) and a translation (t.21.1). The main source for the compilated version is the text of Ash. 1923.444 (also called WB 444, or the “Weld-Blundell prism”), a relatively well preserved four-sided prism with two columns on each face. An interesting, although now somewhat outdated discussion of the Sumerian King List can be found in Jacobsen, AS 11 (1939). The end of the Sumerian King List, essentially corresponding to the version known
Published: Jan 1, 2007
Keywords: Tree Ring Chronology; Decimal Number; Mathematical Text; Final Summary; Historical Length
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