Alulim
? · Eridu
Alulim is the first king in the Sumerian King List, the ruler to whom 'kingship was lowered from heaven' in the city of Eridu, at the very head of the list's antediluvian section. He is credited with a reign of 28,800 years — one of the impossibly long pre-Flood reigns that mark these entries as legitimacy-ideology rather than chronicle. He represents the Mesopotamian tradition of a set of long-reigning antediluvian kings before the Flood, the structural counterpart to other ancient lists of long-lived pre-Flood figures.
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Eridu
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Eridu
Held in tradition to be the first city, sacred to the god Enki (modern Tell Abu Shahrain) in the far south. The pin marks the tablet's findspot.
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