Kish (Sumer)

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This article is about the Sumerian city. For other uses, see Kish.

Coordinates: 32°33′N, 44°39′E

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Babylonia in the time of Hammurabi, showing his empire at the start and end of his reign

Ancient Mesopotamia
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Euphrates • Tigris
Cities / Empires
Sumer: Eridu • Kish • Uruk • Ur • Lagash • Nippur • Girsu
Elam: Susa
Akkadian Empire: Akkad • Mari
Amorites: Isin • Larsa
Babylonia: Babylon • Chaldea
Hittites • Kassites • Hurrians/Mitanni
Assyria: Assur • Nimrud • Dur-Sharrukin • Nineveh
Chronology
History of Mesopotamia
History of Sumer • Kings of Sumer
Kings of Assyria
Kings of Babylon
Mythology
Enûma Elish • Gilgamesh
Assyro-Babylonian religion
Language
Sumerian • Elamite
Akkadian • Aramaic
Hurrian • Hittite

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Kish

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Murex bearing the name of Rimush, king of Kish, ca. 2270 BC, Louvre

Kish (Sumerian KIŠ^KI, modern Tell al-Uhaymir) was an ancient city of Sumer, situated some 12 km east of Babylon, now ca. 80 km south of Baghdad, in the Babil Governorate, Iraq. The Sumerian king list states it was the first city to have kings after after a flood mentioned in the king list. The city's patron deity was Zababa in Akkadian times.

A French archeological team under Henri de Genouillac excavated there between 1912 and 1914, and later an Anglo-American team under Stephen Langdon from 1923 to 1933.

Sources

Karen Rhea Nemat-Nejat Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Greenwood, 1998, ISBN 0-313-29497-6; Hendrickson, 2002, ISBN 1-56563-712-7)
N.K. Sanders (trans) The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics, 1974, ISBN 0-14-044100-X)
Nissen, Hans The early history of the ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C. (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1988. ISBN 0-226-58656-1, ISBN 0-226-58658-8) Elizabeth Lutzeir, trans.