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Dynasties after the Flood (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
King lists
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.11 Historiography
05.11.02 Historiographic texts
05.11.02.03 King lists
Postdiluvian age
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.05 Postdiluvian age
Shortened life time
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.05 Postdiluvian age
01.02.05.01 Shortened life time

Keywords
Berossus
kings
lists
postdiluvian age

Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires

Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Euechsios = Enmerkar, Chomasbelos = Lugalbanda.

Berossus, Babyloniaca F5a:
After the Flood Euechsios ruled over the land of the Chaldeans four neroi. And after him his son Chomasbelos took over the kingship, four neroi and five sossoi.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Berossus, Babyloniaca F5a

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 21

Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

Amar Annus

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