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The first king of Babylon (1)

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King lists
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.11 Historiography
05.11.02 Historiographic texts
05.11.02.03 King lists
Longevity
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.03 Antediluvian age
01.02.03.04 Longevity
Seven antediluvian kings
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.03 Antediluvian age
01.02.03.01 Seven antediluvian kings

Keywords
antediluvian age
Berossus
kings
lists

Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires

Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Aloros = Alulim in the Sumerian king list.

Berossus, Babyloniaca F3:
Aloros, a Chaldean from Babylonia, was the first king at Babylon. He reigned for ten saroi.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Berossus, Babyloniaca F3

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 18	Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.
Verbrugghe and Wickersham 2000, 47	Verbrugghe, Gerald P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho. Introduced and Translated. Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 2000.

Amar Annus

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