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Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings
Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings Author:Leonard William King Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. TRADITIONS CONCERNING DUNGI AND OTHER EARLY KINGS ; THE BELEOUS AND BELETARAS OF AGATHIAS. IN the preceding chapter it was remarked that the c... more »hronicle, on which the deeds of Sargon and Naram-Sin are recorded, is only part of a composition concerning the most famous of the early kings and rulers of Babylonia and Assyria. The tablet No. 26,472 represents a portion of this composition, and the tablet No. 96,152,1 after the omission of at least one section, furnishes a continuation of its text. On both tablets the reigns of different kings are treated in separate sections divided from one another by lines ruled across the tablet, and on both the order in which they are arranged is chronological. In addition to the records concerning Sargon and Naram-Sin, kings of Agade, the text of No. 26,472 includes sections dealing with Dungi, king of Ur, and with two other early rulers named Ura-imitti and Bel-ibni. Then follows a catchline referring to the early Assyrian king Ilu-shuma and the contemporary ruler Su-abu. The tablet No. 96,152 is not completely preserved for its lower half is broken off, so that nearly half its text is wanting. In its first section it repeats the story of Ura-imitti and Bel-ibni, and then follows a series of traditions concerning kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon, kings of the Country of the Sea, and certain Kassite rulers, beginning with Hammurabi and ending with Agum. 1 See Vol. II, pp. 15 ff. It will thus be seen that the section referring to Ilu-shuma and Su-abu is not found upon the second chronicle, and it is possible that the original text contained traditions of a number of early kings between Bel-ibni and Hammurabi, which for some reason have been omitted by the scribe of No. 96,152. In that case the latter tablet would present...« less