THE KING-LISTS
A. THE KINGS BEFORE THE FLOOD. (Larsa list No. 1.)
Name City Length of Reign
A-lu-lim NUNKI 8 sars = 28,800 years
A-la(l)-gar NUNKI 10 sars = 36,000 years
En-me-en-lu-an-na Bad-tabira 12 sars = 43,200 years
En-me-en-gal-an-na Bad-tabira 8 sars = 28,800 years
Dumuzi 'the shepherd' Bad-tabira 10 sars = 36,000 years
En-Sib-zi-an-na Larak 8 sars = 28,800 years
Enmeenduranna Sippar 5 sars, 5 ners = 21,000 years
(?) du-du Suruppak 5 sars, 1 ner = 18,600 years
(Total) 8 kings; 5 cities; 241,200 years
'The Flood came. After the Flood came, kingship was sent down from on high.'
B. THE KINGS AFTER THE FLOOD. (Larsa list.)
The First Dynasty of KISH
1 GA-UR 1,200 years
2 GUL-la-dNIDABA-an-na 960 years
3 (?)
4 (?)
5 Ba-...
6 (?)
7 Ga-li-bu-um 360 years
8 Ka-lu-mu-mu 840 years
9 Ka-ga-gi-ib 900 years
10 A-tab 600 years
11 A-tab-ba 840 years
12 Ar-pi-um 720 years
13 Etana the shepherd 1,500 years
14 Ba-li-ih 400 years
15 En-me-nun-na 660 years
16 Me-lam-Kish 900 years
17 Bar-rak-num-na 1,200 years
18 Mes-za- (?) 140 years
19 Ti-iz-gar 306 years
20 Il-ku-u 900 years
21 Il-ta-sa-du-um 1,200 years
22 En-me-en-bara-gi-si 900 years
23 Ag-ga 625 years
(Total) 23 kings; 24,510 years, 3 months and 3.5 days
The First Dynasty of ERECH
1 Mes-ki-ag-ga-se-ir
(son of the Sun-god) 325 years
2 En-me-kar 420 years
3 (The god) Lugalbanda,
the shepherd 1,200 years
4 (The god) Dumuzi,
the fisherman 100 years
5 Gilgamish lord of Kullab 126 years
6 Ur-dNungal 30 years
7 Utul-kalamma 15 years
8 Labasher 9 years
9 Ennunadanna 8 years
10 ...-he-de 36 years
11 Me-lam-an-na 6 years
12 Lugal-ki-aga 36 years
(Total) 12 kings; 2,310 years
The First Dynasty of UR
1 Mes-an-ni-pad-da
(IA. A-an-ni-pad-da) 80 years
2 Mes-ki-ag-dNannar 36 years
3 Elulu 25 years
4 Balulu 36 years
(Total) 4 kings (should be five); 177 years
The Dynasty of AWAN
(Total) 3 kings; 356 years
The Second Dynasty of KISH
1 (?) 201 years
2 Da-da-sig (?)
3 Ma-ma-gal-la 360 years
4 Ka-al-bu-... 195 years
5 KU-E 300 years
6 ...nun-na 180 years
7 I-bi-ni-... 290 years
8 Lugal-mu 360 years
(Total) 8 kings; 3,195 years
The Dynasty of HAMASI
Hadanish 360 years
(Total) 1 king; 360 years
The Second Dynasty of ERECH
1 En-uk-du-an-na 60 years
(Total) Kingship lasted 120 years. They ruled 480 years.
The Second Dynasty of UR
4 kings; 108 years (according to the Nippur list.)
The Dynasty of ADAB
1 Lugal-an-ni-mu-un-du 90 years
(Total) 1 king, 90 years.
The Dynasty of MARI
1 An-pu 30 years
2 ...-zi (?)
3 ...-lugal 30 years
4 ...-lugal-gal 20 years
5 ...-bi-im 30 years
6 ... 9 years
(Total) 6 kings; 136 years
The Third Dynasty of KISH
KU-dBau, 100 years
a woman wine-seller
NOTE: The dynasties given above must in many cases have been more or less contemporary,
but nothing is known about them; from this time onward the amount of overlap can be
checked and the dynasties are therefore printed in parallel columns.
The Dynasty of AKSHAK Patesis of LAGASH
Unzi 30 years Ur-Nina (about 2900 B.C.)
Undalulu 6 years Akurgal
Urur 6 years Eannatum I
Puzur-sahan 20 years Enannatum I
Ishu-il 24 years Entemena
Gimil-Sin 7 years Enannatum II
The Fourth Dynasty of KISH Enetarzi
The Dynasty of AGADE (About 2650 B.C.) Enlitarri
(About 2630-2470 B.C.) Puzur-Sin 25 years Lugal-anda
Sargon 55 years Ur-Ilbaba (?) 6 years Urukagina (about 2630 B.C.)
Rimush 9 years Zimudar 30 years
Manishtusu 15 years Usi-watar 6 years
Naram-Sin 55 years Ishtar-muti 11 years The Third Dynasty of ERECH
Shagargalisharri 24 years Ishme-Shamash 11 years (About 2630 B.C.)
'Who was king, who was Nannia' 3 years Lugal-zaggisi 25 years
not king?'
The Dynasty of GUTIUM The Fourth Dynasty of ERECH
(About 2470 B.C.) (About 2470 B.C.)
Imta 3 years Ur-nigin 7 years
Inkishu 6 years Ur-gigir 6 years
Nikillagab 6 years Kudda 6 years
Shulma 6 years Puzur-ili 5 years
Elulumesh 6 years Ur-Babbar 6 years
Inimabakesh 5 years
Patesis of LAGASH Igeshaush 6 years
Iarlagab 15 years
Ur-Bau Ibate 3 years
Nam-makhni Iarlagash 3 years
Ur-gar Kurum 1 year
Dar-azag ...... 3 years
Lu-Bau ...... 2 years
Lu-Gula Irarum 2 years
Gudea Ibranum 1 year
Ur-Ningirsu Hablum 2 years
Ur-lama Puzur-Sin 7 years
Iarlaganda 7 years The Fifth Dynasty of ERECH
The Third Dynasty of UR ...... 7 years (About 2280 B.C.)
(About 2278-2170 B.C.) Tirigan 40 days Utu-khegal 7 years
Ur-Nammu 18 years
Dungi 47 years
Bur-Sin 9 years
Gimil-Sin 9 years The Dynasty of ISIN The Dynasty of LARSA
Ibi-Sin 25 years (About 2170-1950 B.C.) (About 2170-1910 B.C.)
Ishbi-Irra 32 years Naplanum 20 years
ESHNUNNA Gimil-ilishu 10 years Shu-ilishu
Bilalama (?) Idin-Dagan 21 years Emisu 28 years
Ishme-Dagan 20 years Samum 35 years
The First Dynasty of Libit-Ishtar 11 years Zabaia 9 years
BABYLON Ur-Enurta 28 years Gungunum 27 years
(About 2040 B.C.) Bur-Sin 21 years Abi-sare 11 years
Sumu-abu 14 years Libit-Enlil 5 years Sumu-ilu 29 years
Sumu-la-ilu 36 years Irra-mitti 8 years Nur-Adad 16 years
Zabum 14 years Enlil-bani 24 years Sin-idinnam 6 years
Apil-Sin 18 years Zambia 3 years Sin-eribam 2 years
Sin-muballit 29 years Iter-pisha 5 years Sin-iqisham 5 years
Hammurabi 43 years Ur-dukuga 4 years Silli-Adad 1 year
(1940 B.C.) Sin-magir 11 years
Damiq-ilishu The Elamite Kings of LARSA
Warad-Sin, son of
Kudur-Mabug 12 years
Rim-Sin 61 years
NOTE: The dates prior to the Third Dynasty of Ur are given in round figures and are
approximate only; in the early period there is a margin of error of about one hundred years.
information based on charts found in The Sumerians by C. Leonard Woolley.
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