Sumerian Kings List

From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved "Volume III - Sumerian Kings List - Mari"

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Sumerian Kings List - Mari

Kings after the Flood, the city of Mari reigns.

City	King City No.	King Flood No.	Kings Name	Years ruled	Other Notes
Mari	1	59	Anbu (?)	30 years	Other manuscripts have 90 years.

One source calls this king Ilšu became King and reigned for 30 years, but dated around 2470-2430 B.C., which is 40 years.

Mari

Anba (?)

17 years

Other manuscripts have 7 years. Son of Anbu.

One source calls this king Gazzi (?) son of (Ilšu), who reigned for 17 years between 2430-2414 B.C.

Mari

Bazi

30 years

One source calls this the leatherworker.

One source calls this king (En)-Lugal who reigned for 30 years that dates to 2414-2385 B.C.

As to the title of leatherworker given to Bazi:

Sum. kuš: skin, hide, leather.
- Sum. ašgab: leather-dresser, currier (kuš, 'leather', + gúb, 'to cleanse').
  - Sum. kuš-nag: leather water pail or hose ('leather' + 'to drink').
  - Sum. ^kuša-gá-lá: leather sack (for flour) ('water' + 'to store' + 'to lift, carry').
  - Sum. ^kušdùg-gan: leather bag ('gladness' + 'to bring forth').
  - Sum. ^kušlu-úb: leather bag ('abundant' + 'container').

Mari

Zizi

20 years

One source called him the fuller.

One source calls this king (Zi)-Lugal who reigned for 20 years around 2385-2365 B.C.

As to the reference of Zizi as the fuller.

Sum. azlag_(2,3,4,5,6), ašlag: fuller, felt-worker; launderer (a, 'water', + zalag, 'to cleanse').
- Sum. múdru: fuller; launderer (mur₁₀/mu₄, 'to clothe oneself', + duru₅, 'moist, fresh').
Sum. ^lúTÚG: fuller.
- Sum. TÚG-DU₈: textile fuller ('cloth' + 'residue; to bake').

Mari

Limer

30 years

Called the gudu priest.

One source calls this king (En)-bi-muš-maš who reigned for 30 years between 2365-2335 B.C.

The Sumerian gudug, gudu₄, gúda: is a ritually pure priest; divinely anointed.

Mari

Carrum-iter

30 years

Some manuscripts have 9 years.
Other manuscripts have 7 years.

One source calls this king (En)-ni who reigned for 9 years around 2335-2327 B.C.

City	Number of Kings	Total Years Ruled
Mari	6	136 years, other manuscripts have 184 years.

    For once the ruling ages of 136 years matches in all cases, except for some variations, and the dating from 2470-2327 B.C. is 143 years.    This dynasty overlaps into the Second Dynasty of Unug about 8 years before it started and extends into the Fourth Dynasty of Kish.

    In Mari (with an Akkadian/Sumerian culture) thousands of letters have been found containing the correspondence (both received and sent) between kings.    Mari was eventually sacked and burned by Hammurabi (in 1760 B.C.) thus the clay tablets in the large archives are unintentionally baked and very well preserved for millennia to come.

    Amorites always singular (Heb. 'emori, mountain dwellers) as in Gen. 10:16 descendants of Canaan.    The Mari tablets show that Amraphel of Shinar (Gen. 14:1) was one of their kings.    They dwelt in Hazazon-tamar (Hazazon of the palm trees, KJV Hazezon-tamar) the ancient name of a town on the west coast of the Dead Sea, occupied by the Amorites, but conquered by four great kings of the East.

This file was created on November 20, 2004.

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