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Image: The Sumerian King List, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Description: This is the Sumerian King List, an ancient stone tablet listing cities in Sumer and its neighbouring regions, their rulers and the length of their reigns. It contains a reference to the flood myth and mythological origins of Kingship, with the details of the later kings listed on the tablet having more realistic reigns than the excessively long ones of the earlier entries. The artefact is a prism, with its cuneiform writing in the Sumerian language. Its production is dated to approximately 1800 BC and it is believed to originate from Larsa, an ancient city in Sumer whose ruins now lay within the Dhi Qar Governate of Iraq.
Title: The Sumerian King List, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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