Weld-Blundell Prism

The Weld-Blundell Prism is a clay, cuneiform-inscribed vertical prism held in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, found during a 1922 excavation at Larsa in modern-day Iraq by British archaeologist Herbert Weld Blundell. Its four sides, each about 20 by 9 centimeters and inscribed in Sumerian in two columns, carry the Sumerian King List, and it is considered the most complete of the roughly 25 more-or-less complete copies of the list known as of 2016. The list begins with rulers said to have reigned before a great flood and ends with Sin-magir of the Isin dynasty, crediting many early kings, especially those before the flood, with implausibly long reigns counted in units of 3,600 and 600 years, which has led many scholars to treat the work as more legendary than strictly historical. The prism's own text dates to the Old Babylonian period, within the Isin dynasty. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/