[2] The prism was found in a 1922 expedition in Larsa in modern-day Iraq by British archaeologist Herbert Weld Blundell.

[2] The list begins with the antediluvian rulers and ends with Sin-magir of the Isin dynasty (r. 1827–1817).

[4] Many, especially antediluvian, kings are credited with incredibly long reigns (counted in sars and nerah), as a result of which many scholars consider this work to be more artistic than historical.

They are supposed to express the great importance of rulers who were considered demigods.

[5] This text of the Old Babylonian period (Isin dynasty, c. 1827 – c. 1817 BCE) is inscribed in traditional Sumerian cuneiform.