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Scheil dynastic tablet

Scheil dynastic tablet
The Scheil dynastic tablet, with transcription and translation in French (1911).

The Scheil dynastic tablet is an ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform text containing a variant form of the Sumerian King List.

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 Susa. Scheil translated the tablet in 1911. The tablet dates to the early 2nd millennium BC.

He obtained another document, a rather damaged prism similar to the Weld-Blundell Prism, which he translated in 1934, and completed using information from the 1911 tablet and other known documents.

The 1911 tablet is currently owned by the British Museum, but is not on display.

References

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. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/3853561 JSTOR]
  2. Albert Kirk Grayson, ''Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles'' (Eisenbrauns, 2000), p. 268.
  3. (1911). "Les plus anciennes dynasties connues de Sumer-Accad". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
  4. (1911). "Une nouvelle dynastie suméro-accadienne. Les rois " Guti "". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
  5. (1934). ""Liste susienne des dynasties de Sumer-Accad"". Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale.
  6. "CDLI-Archival View".
  7. "British Museum (BM 108857)".
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