{"id":829,"date":"2008-03-26T01:43:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T05:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=829"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:45:15","slug":"15821-%c2%a0-anon-attr-to-damiq-ilisu-of-isin-ruled-1816-1794-bc-weidner-chronicle-abc-19-aka-esagila-chronicle-15822-%c2%a0-anon-late-third-millennium-bce-ur-iii-period-sumerian-king-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"15821. (Anon. attr. to Damiq-ili\u0161u of Isin, ruled 1816\u20131794 BC<\/span>) Weidner Chronicle, ABC<\/span> 19 [aka Esagila Chronicle] 15822. (Anon. late third millennium BCE<\/span>, Ur III<\/span> period) Sumerian King List based on version G, an octagonal prism from Larsa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FOT1269892\"<\/a>The ear\u00adli\u00adest known his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal doc\u00adu\u00adment is a Sumer\u00adian king list, of which there are 16 extant copies. It is some\u00adwhat myth\u00adi\u00adcal in tone (the sec\u00adond king, Alal\u00adgar, is said to have ruled for 64,800 years. But many of the kings seem to have been real, and some seem to have had hum\u00adble ori\u00adgins, which the chron\u00adi\u00adcle is care\u00adful to point out. We are told that \u201cThe divine Dumuzi, the shep\u00adherd, ruled for 36,000 years\u201d, that \u201cEtana, the shep\u00adherd, who ascend\u00aded to heav\u00aden and put all coun\u00adtries in order, became king; he ruled for 1,500 years\u201d, and \u201cThe divine Lugal-ban\u00adda, the shep\u00adherd, ruled for 1200 years\u201d. Not only shep\u00adherds aspired to king\u00adship: \u201cThe divine Dumuzi, the fish\u00ader\u00adman, whose city was Ku\u2019ara, ruled for 100.\u201d He was the king just before Gil\u00adgamesh, of epic fame, who is gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly thought to have been a real per\u00adson. Oth\u00ader trades\u00admen in the king list include Ki\u0161, Su-suda, the fuller, Mam\u00ada\u00adgal, the boat\u00adman, Bazi, the leather work\u00ader, and Nan\u00adniya, the stone\u00adcut\u00adter. Alto\u00adgeth\u00ader, even in a long king list, this seems a remark\u00adable num\u00adber. Per\u00adhaps there is, embed\u00added in this list, a hint at some mis\u00adin\u00adter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion in our ideas of the nature of Sumer\u00adian kingship.
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But most remark\u00adable of all was a woman king (appar\u00adent\u00adly not a queen who came to pow\u00ader through wid\u00adow\u00adhood), Kuba\u00adba<\/strong>. The text reads: \u201cIn Ki\u0161, Ku-Baba, the woman tav\u00adern-keep\u00ader, who made firm the foun\u00adda\u00adtions of Ki\u0161, became king; she ruled for 100 years.\u201d Sure\u00adly there\u2019s a inter\u00adest\u00ading tale behind this terse entry. If she is a real his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal fig\u00adure (and one should\u00adn\u2019t assume so), her reign may have been in c.2400 BC<\/span>. It\u2019s thought that she over\u00adthrew the rule of En-Shakan\u00adsha-Ana of the 2nd Uruk Dynasty to become monarth. The peo\u00adple of the ancient Near East cer\u00adtain\u00adly thought her remark\u00adable. Kuba\u00adba (or Ku-Baba or Kug-Bau) also appears in the text known as the Wei\u00add\u00adner Chron\u00adi\u00adcle, in this most remark\u00adable passage:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the reign of Puzur-Nirah, king of Ak\u0161ak, the fresh\u00adwa\u00adter fish\u00ader\u00admen of Esagila
were catch\u00ading fish for the meal of the great lord Marduk;
the offi\u00adcers of the king took away the fish.
The fish\u00ader\u00adman was fish\u00ading when 7 (or 8 ) days had passed [\u2026]
in the house of Kuba\u00adba, the tav\u00adern-keep\u00ader [\u2026] they brought to Esagila.
At that time BROKEN<\/span> <\/em>[An indi\u00adca\u00adtion by the writer that the tablet he was copy\u00ading was dam\u00adaged.]<\/span> anew for Esagila [\u2026]
Kuba\u00adba gave bread to the fish\u00ader\u00adman and gave water, she made him offer the fish to Esagila.
Mar\u00adduk, the king, the prince of the Aps\u00fb <\/em>[the sweet waters below the earth], favored her and said: \u201cLet it be so!\u201d
He entrust\u00aded to Kuba\u00adba, the tav\u00adern-keep\u00ader, sov\u00ader\u00adeign\u00adty over the whole world.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


Her rule was asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with peace and pros\u00adper\u00adi\u00adty, and shrines to her hon\u00adour appeared through\u00adout Mesopotamia. She seems to have been slow\u00adly trans\u00adformed into a Moth\u00ader God\u00addess pop\u00adu\u00adlar in the King\u00addoms of Mitan\u00adni, as the tute\u00adlary god\u00addess who pro\u00adtect\u00aded the Syr\u00adi\u00adan city of Car\u00adchem\u00adish, and then lat\u00ader in Hit\u00adtite, Luwian and Phry\u00adgian cos\u00admolo\u00adgies. As a god\u00addess, she was often rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded hold\u00ading a mir\u00adror in one hand and a pop\u00adpy cap\u00adsule or pome\u00adgran\u00adate in the oth\u00ader. She still retained her name Kuba\u00adba among the Luwians, on the edge of the Greek world. To the Phry\u00adgians she was \u201cMoth\u00ader Kubelya\u201d. and from them the Greeks seem to have got\u00adten their god\u00addess Cybele [\u039a\u03c5\u03b2\u03ad\u03bb\u03b7]. In most places, she was the sub\u00adject of orgias\u00adtic cults. Cybele\u2019s most ecsta\u00adt\u00adic Greek fol\u00adlow\u00aders were males who rit\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly cas\u00adtrat\u00aded them\u00adselves, after which they were giv\u00aden wom\u00aden\u2019s cloth\u00ading and assumed \u201cfemale\u201d identities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, in the intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal cli\u00admate of today, pun\u00addits would prob\u00ada\u00adbly be debat\u00ading: \u201cIs she a suc\u00adcess because she\u2019s a woman, or because she\u2019s a tavern-keeper?\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions of Kubaba\/Kubelya\/Cybele from var\u00adi\u00adous times and places:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The ear\u00adli\u00adest known his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal doc\u00adu\u00adment is a Sumer\u00adian king list, of which there are 16 extant copies. It is some\u00adwhat myth\u00adi\u00adcal in tone (the sec\u00adond king, Alal\u00adgar, is said to have ruled for 64,800 years. But many of the kings \u2026<\/p>\n

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