Babylonian King List C (private collection)
A small clay tablet in a private collection contains a list of some of the rulers of the Second Dynasty of Isin [/ribo/babylon2/index.html] (1157-1026 BC). This scribal exercise or draft copy is written in Neo-Babylonian script and likely dates to the reign of Adad-apla-iddina (1068-1047 BC), the eighth king of that dynasty, or possibly to the late reign of his predecessor Marduk-šāpik-zēri (1081-1069 BC), the last king mentioned on the tablet. It has been suggested that the scribal note at the end of the composition (lines 8-9) may have been an attempt by the scribe in training to calculate one fixed point of time to another.
| 1) | 18 (years) | Marduk-kabit-aḫḫēšu |
| 2) | 8 (years) | Itti-Marduk-balāṭu |
| 3) | 6 (years) | Ninurta-nādin-šumi |
| 4) | 22 (years) | Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur (I) |
| 5) | 4 (years) | Enlil-nādin-apli, his son |
| 6) | 18 (years) | Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē (Text: Marduk-nādin-šumi) |
| 7) | 13 (years) | Marduk-šāpik-zēri |
| 8) | Total: five hundred years from | [...] |
| 9) | before | Marduk-šāpik-zēri |
Selected Bibliography
Grayson, A.K., 'Königslisten und Chroniken. B. Akkadisch,' in: D.O. Edzard (ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 6/1–2, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1980, pp. 96–97 §3.4.
Poebel, A., The Second Dynasty of Isin According to a New King-List Tablet (Assyriological Studies 15), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.
Jamie Novotny
Jamie Novotny, 'Babylonian King List C (private collection)', The Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online (RIBo) Project, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/KingLists/KingListC/]