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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] Sumerian King's List http://asorblog.org/2016/11/01/sumerian-king-list-history-kingship-early-mesopotamia/ Note: Gushur (‘Tree-Trunk’?) [DD: Unlikely] - - - In fact, the native title of this composition was simply ‘Kingship’, after its first word, nam-lugal. nam-lugal an-ta e11-da-ba / Kiš.KI lugal-am3 / Kiš.KI-a GIŠ.UR3-e / mu 600×3+60×6 i3-na When kingship came down from heaven, (the city of) Kish was sovereign; in Kish, Gushur exercised (kingship) for 2,160 years. So begins the oldest SKL manuscript, which dates to the time of Shulgi (ca. 2093-2046 BCE), the second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur (also called Ur III). Later compilers apparently felt uncomfortable with the prominence accorded to the city of Kish and provided a new beginning to the composition by devising a prior descent of kingship in the Sumerian city of Eridu. In the original version, however, [b]Kish was likely to have been the first seat of kingship. In that city a certain Gushur (‘Tree-Trunk’?) [/b] reigned for hundreds and hundreds of years. Similarly long-lived kings of Kish reigned until the city was defeated and kingship was transferred to Uruk, or rather to Eana, the sacred precinct of Uruk. Various kings succeeded one another in Eana until Uruk was also defeated and kingship moved to another city. The same story is repeated many times; according to the SKL, kingship continued to shift from one city to another. In this narrative, all the rulers who allegedly held sovereignty over the whole of Babylonia are listed one after the other without interruption, except for one break – a time of political confusion and anarchy, during which it was not clear who the king was. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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