text written in 6 columns, representing a continuation of the Sumerian king list tradition through to the 8th century BC and is an important source for the reconstruction of the historical narrative for certain periods poorly preserved elsewhere.

From the extant pieces, the work apparently begins with a list of nine antediluvian kings from five cities, so much resembling that of the Sumerian King List that Thorkild Jacobsen considered it a variant,[4] and an account of the flood before proceeding on with that of the successive Babylonian dynasties.

[5] The text dwells on the final resting place of the kings, leading some to propose that the legitimacy of rule determined the location of the burial.

[2] The following collation should be considered preliminary as small fragments continue to be identified, where 1A, 1B and 1C probably come from the same tablet although they do not actually join[2]: 139  and others, such as 79-7-8, 333+ (copy 2 below) have their identification disputed.

[6] The Dynastic Chronicle at Livius Archived 2015-05-03 at the Wayback Machine CDLI links to tablet fragments are provided in the table (above).