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The Sumerian king list: bibliography

Print sources used

Borger, Rykle, Hinz, Walther, and Römer, Willem H. Ph.; ed. Kaiser, Otto, Historisch-chronologische Texte, I. (Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments I, 4), Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn: Gütersloh, 1984, 328-337: commentary, translation (by Römer)

Civil, Miguel, "Sur le nom d'un roi de Kish", Revue d'Assyriologie 85 (1969), 179: commentary (l. 46)

Edzard, Dietz Otto, Die "Zweite Zwischenzeit" Babyloniens. Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 1957, 138-140: commentary (l. 370A)

Finkelstein, J.J., "The Antediluvian Kings: A University of California Tablet", Journal of Cuneiform Studies (1963), 39-51: score transliteration, handcopy, commentary

Frayne, Douglas, and George, Lynne, "The "Rakes's" Progress: A Phantom King of Kish", NABU 63 (1990), No. 30: commentary (l. 43)

Glassner, Jean-Jacques, Chroniques mésopotamiennes. Les Belles Lettres: Paris, 1993: pp. 69-87; 137-142: commentary, translation

Hallo, William W., "Beginning and End of the Sumerian King List in the Nippur Recension", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 57 (1963), 52-57: handcopy, commentary, score transliteration

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Sumerian King List. (Assyriological Studies, 11) The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois, 1939: composite text, commentary, translation

Klein, Jacob, "A New Nippur Duplicate of the Sumerian Kinglist in the Brockmon Collection, University of Haifa", in Michalowski, P., and Steinkeller, P., Stone, E. C., and Zettler, R.L., (eds.), Velles Paraules. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Miguel Civil on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Aula Orientalis, 9), Editorial Ausa: Sabadell - Barcelona, 1991, 123-129: commentary

Klein, Jacob, "BT 14 + P₃", manuscript, 1999: score transliteration

Kraus, F.R., "Zur Liste der älteren Könige von Babylonien", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 17 (1952), 29-60: score transliteration, commentary

Nissen, H.J., "Eine neue Version der Sumerischen Königliste", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 17 (1965), 1-5: score transliteration, commentary

Steiner, G., "Der 'reale' Kern in den 'legendären' Zahlen von Regierungsjahren der ältesten Herrscher Mesopotamiens", Acta Sumerologica 88, 129-152 commentary

Vincente, Claudine-Adrienne, "The Tall Leilan Recension of the Sumerian King List", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 50 (1995), 234-270: score transliteration, commentary, photograph, handcopy

Wilcke, Claus, "Die Inschriftenfunde der 7. und 8. Kampagnen (1983 und 1984)", in Hrouda, Barthel (ed.), Isin-Ishan Bahriyat III: Die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen 1983-1984 (Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Abhandlungen. Neue Folge, 84) Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften: München, 1987: 89-93, Taf. 35-36: score transliteration, commentary, photograph (IB 1564 + 1565)

Wilcke, Claus, "Die Sumerische Königliste und erzählte Vergangenheit", in Ungern-Sternberg, Jürgen von (ed.), and Reinau, Hansjörg, Vergangheit in mündlicher Überlieferung (Colloquium Rauricum, 1), B.G. Teubner: Stuttgart, 1988, 113-140: commentary

Wilcke, Claus, "Genealogical and Geographical Thought in the Sumerian King List", in Behrens, Hermann, Loding, Darlene, and Roth, Martha T., (eds.)DUMU-E₂-DUB-BA-A. Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg (Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, 11) University Museum: Philadelphia, 1989, 557-571: commentary

Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:

• Krecher, Joachim (2.1.1.JK, 1999: score transliteration)

Cuneiform sources

• Ash 1923, 444 (OECT 2 pl. 1ff.): Larsa. (Source WB)
• Ash WB 62 (OECT 2 4): unknown. (Source WB62 -- not used)
• BM 108857 (CRAI 1911 606ff., photo RA 9 69): Sippar. (Source S)
• CBS 13293 (PBS 5 4, photo pl. 91) + CBS 13484 (both JCS 17 54): Nippur. (Source P4+Ha)
• CBS 13981 (PBS 5 2, photo pl. 90) (+) CBS 14223 (PBS 13 2) + N 3368 (JCS 15 80) (+) Ni 9712a-c (ISET 2 125; UMB 17 fig. 9): Nippur. (Source P2+L2)
• CBS 13994 (PBS 5 3, photo pl. 91) + Brockmon 14: Nippur. (Source P3+BT14)
• CBS 14220 (PBS 13 1) + Ni 9712 a-c (ISET 2 125): Nippur. (Source L1+Ni1)
• CBS 15365 = N 1610 (JCS 15 80): Nippur. (Source P6 -- not used)
• CBS 19797 (PBS 5 5): Nippur. (Source P5)
• IB 1546+1565 (Wilcke 1987 pls. 35-36): Isin. (Source IB)
• IM 11053, 99 (TIM 9 36): unknown provenance. (Source vD)
• IM 63095 (Finkelstein 1963): Tell Harmal. (Source Go -- not used)
• Jacobsen Coll. w/n (AS 11 217): unknown provenance. (Source J)
• L87--520a+520b+641+769+770 (Vincente 1995): Tell Leilan. (Source TL)
• MDP 28 p. 17ff. = RA 31 150f.: Susa. (Source Su1)
• MDP 28 p. 24f. = RA 31 160: Susa. (Source Su2)
• MDP 28 p. 26 = RA 31 162: Susa. (Source Su3)
• MDP 28 p. 27 = RA 31 164: Susa. (Source Su4)
• Ni 3195 (translit. ZA 50 31f.): Nippur. (Source Ni2)
• PRAK C 112: Kish. (Source G)
• UCBC 9-1819 (JCS 17 40): Tutub. (Source Fi -- not used)
• UET 6 *263: Ur. (not used)
• UM 29-15-199 (Michalowski 1984): Nippur. (Source Mi)

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