BabylonThe Uruk King List
Anonymous / tradition (Seleucid-period temple scribes of Uruk) · c. 160s BC (Seleucid-period copy tracing kings down to the reign of Seleucus II) · Uruk (Iraq) · history
A late chronographic tablet extending the ancient king-list genre all the way to Hellenistic Seleucid rulers argues that Babylonian scribes still framed even a Macedonian-descended king as the latest link in an unbroken chain of legitimate Mesopotamian kingship stretching back to Gilgamesh.
Descends from
- Sumerian King List · c. 21st century BC or later (took shape through successive Ur III and early second-millennium editions of older material)
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