Scheil dynastic tablet
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The Scheil dynastic tablet is an ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform text containing a variant form of the Sumerian King List.S. Langdon, "The Early Chronology of Sumer and Egypt and the Similarities in Their Culture", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 17, No. 3/4, Oct., 1921, p. 133. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/3853561 JSTOR]Albert Kirk Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (Eisenbrauns, 2000), p. 268.
Discovery
The tablet came into possession of the Assyriologist Jean-Vincent Scheil in 1911, having bought it from a private collection in France. The tablet when purchased was reported to have been unearthed from Susa. Scheil translated the tablet in 1911.{{cite journal |last1=Scheil |first1=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Scheil|title=Les plus anciennes dynasties connues de Sumer-Accad |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |date=1911 |volume=55 |issue=8 |pages=606–620 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1911_num_55_8_72913}}{{cite journal |last1=Scheil |first1=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Scheil |title=Une nouvelle dynastie suméro-accadienne. Les rois " Guti " |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |date=1911 |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=318–327 |doi=10.3406/crai.1911.72837 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1911_num_55_4_72837}} The tablet dates to the early 2nd millennium BC.
He obtained another document, a rather damaged prism similar to the Weld-Blundell Prism, which he translated in 1934, and completed using information from the 1911 tablet and other known documents.{{cite journal |last1=Scheil |first1=Vincent |title= "Liste susienne des dynasties de Sumer-Accad" |journal=Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale |date=1934 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=149–166 |jstor=23284080 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23284080 |issn=0373-6032}}
The 1911 tablet is currently owned by the British Museum, but is not on display.{{cite web |title=CDLI-Archival View |url=https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P462800 |website=cdli.ucla.edu}}{{cite web |title=British Museum (BM 108857) |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1914-0407-23 |website=The British Museum |language=en}}
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