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Dumuzi(8) (i.e. Tammuz) 100 " 5. Gishbilgames(9) (i.e. Gilgamesh) 126 (or 186) years 6. (. . .)lugal (. . .) years . . .(10) KINGDOM OF UR (4 kings; 171 years) 1. Mesannipada 80 years 2. Meskiagnunna 30 " 3. Elu(. . .) 25 " 4. Balu(. . .) 36 " KINGDOM OF AWAN (3 kings; 356 years) . . .(11) (1) Gap of seven, or possibly eight, names. (2) The name Etana is written in the lists with and without the determinative for "god". (3) The reading of the last sign in the name is unknown. A variant form of the name possibly begins with Bali. (4) This form is given on a fragment of a late Assyrian copy of the list; cf. _Studies in Eastern History_, Vol. III, p. 143. (5) Gap of four, or possibly three, names. (6) Eanna was the great temple of Erech. In the Second Column of the list "the kingdom" is recorded to have passed from Kish to Eanna, but the latter name does not occur in the summary. (7) The name Lugalbanda is written in the lists with and without the determinative for "god". (8) The name Dumuzi is written in the list with the determinative for "god". (9) The name Gishbilgames is written in the list with the determinative for "god". (10) Gap of about four, five, or six kings. (11) Wanting. At this point a great gap occurs in our principal list. The names of some of the missing "kingdoms" may be inferred from the summaries, but their relative order is uncertain. Of two of them we know the duration, a second Kingdom of Ur containing four kings and lasting for a hundred and eight years, and another kingdom, the name of which is not preserved, consisting of only one king who ruled for seven years. The dynastic succession only again becomes assured with the opening of the Dynastic chronicle published by Pere Scheil and recently acquired by the British Museum. It will be noted that with the Kingdom of Ur the separate reigns last for decades and not hundreds of years each, so that we here seem to approach genuine tradition, though the Kingdom of Awan makes a partial reversion to myth
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