KISH (SUMER)

'Kish' (Sumerian ^KI, modern ''Tall 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 the Deluge. The city's patron deity was Zababa.
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.

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★ 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.

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★ Kish (Ukhaimir) at The History of the Ancient Near East