The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

106 THE GENTILE TIMES RECONSIDERED
The Uruk King List (W 20030, 105)
As reproduced by J. van Dijk in UVB 18 (Berlin 1962), tablet 28a. The
transcription to the right is that of A. K. Grayson in RLA VI (1980),
page 97.
The Uruk King List was discovered during the excavations at
Uruk (modern Warka in southern Iraq) in 1959–60 together with
about 1,000 other cuneiform texts (mostly economic texts) from
different periods. 33
The preserved portion of the obverse (front or principal side),
which includes the Neo-Babylonian period, gives the following
chronological information (damaged or missing portions are
indicated by quotation marks or parentheses): 34
33 The first transcription and translation of the text, which included an extensive
discussion by Dr. J. van Dijk, was published in 1962.—J. van Dijk, UVB (=
Vorläufiger Bericht über die von dem Deutschen Archäologischen Institut unter der
Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft aus Mitteln der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
unternommenen Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka), Vol. 18, Berlin, 1962, pp. 53–60.
An English version of van Dijk’s translation (of the kinglist) is published by J. B.
Pritchard, The Ancient Near East (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1969), p. 566. Another, more recent transcription by A. K. Grayson was
published in 1980.—A. K. Grayson, RLA (see note 24 and the picture above), Vol.
VI (1980), pp. 97, 98.
34 Based upon Grayson’s transcription in RLA VI (1980), p. 97.