Scheil dynastic tablet

The Scheil dynastic tablet or Kish Tablet is an ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform text containing a variant form of the Sumerian King List.[1][2]

Discovery

The tablet came into possession of the Assyriologist Jean-Vincent Scheil in 1911, having bought it from a private collection in France. The tablet when purchased was reported to have been unearthed from Kish.[3] Scheil translated the tablet in 1911,[4] followed by another translation in 1934.[5] The tablet dates to the early 2nd millennium BC.

References
  1. S. Langdon, "The Early Chronology of Sumer and Egypt and the Similarities in Their Culture", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 17, No. 3/4, Oct., 1921, p. 133. JSTOR
  2. Albert Kirk Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (Eisenbrauns, 2000), p. 268.
  3. Hence in some literature the tablet is called the "Kish Tablet" (Waddell, 1929).
  4. Scheil, Les plus anciennes dynasties connues dc Sumer-Accad, in Comptes liendus, 1911, pp. 606 ff. 2 VAB, I, 170. 3 Scheil, Une nouvdle dynastic Sumero-Accadienne des rois "Quit", in Comptes Rendus, 1911, pp. 318ff
  5. Scheil, "Liste susienne des dynasties de Sumer-Accad," Memoires de l'Institute franqais d'archeologie orientate, LXII (Cairo, 1934), Melanges Maspero, I, pp. 393-400.
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