a priestly governor (ensi) or by a king (lugal) had the most power in later ancient sumerian society.
a priestly governor (ensi) or by a king (lugal) had the most power in later ancient sumerian society.
who had the most power in later ancient sumerian society?
a priestly governor (ensi) or by a king (lugal)
the standard ancient sumerian king list (wb 444) lists various mythical antediluvian kings and gives them reigns of several tens of thousands of years. the first sumerian king alulim, at eridu, is described as reigning for 28,800 years, followed by several later kings of similar periods. in total these antediluvian kings ruled for 241,200 years from the time when "the kingship was lowered from heaven" to the time when "the flood" swept over the land. excavations in iraq have revealed evidence of localized flooding at shuruppak (modern tell fara, iraq) and various other sumerian cities—all dated to the same time. a layer of riverine sediments, radiocarbon dated to ca. 2900 bc, interrupts the continuity of settlement, extending as far north as the city of kish. polychrome pottery from the jemdet nasr period (3000–2900 bc) was discovered immediately below the shuruppak flood stratum. the "flood" described in the sumerian king list, is believed to have a historical basis, and has been dated 2900 bc. adding 241,200 years to 2900 gives the date 244,100 bc; however, most modern scholars do not believe the ancient sumerians or babylonians believed in a chronology of their own this old. instead they believed that these figures were either fabrications, or were based on not literal solar years (365.2425 days) but instead lunar months (29.53059 days).
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the district of fourways encompasses several suburbs and estates. the suburbs include fourways (on the western side of william nicol drive, with a small portion on the eastern side colloquially known as little fourways), magalies view, bryanston ext. 34, several magaliessig extensions, norscot, norscot slopes, lonehill and beverley, craigavon, broadacres. the estates are cedar lakes, fourways gardens, dainfern, dainfern valley,dainfern ridge and fernbrook estate. the estates have come to be because of the city's high crime rate. dainfern is centred on a golf course, while cedar lakes, fourways gardens and fernbrook estate are centred on family ideals and parks, fourways gardens has a small nature enclosure which used to be home to a set of zebra and several blue cranes. the weather is warmer here than that to the south. fourways will, on average, enjoy pretoria's temperatures, owing to their proximity.
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