According to the Sumerian King List, his reign lasted 9 years (though variant copies read 7 or 15 years.) There is one surviving year-name for an unknown year in his reign: "mu ud-nun{ki} / adab{ki} hul-a = Year in which Adab was destroyed". Tradition gives that he was assassinated, as the Bārûtu, “art of the diviner”, a first millennium compendium of extispicy, records “Omen of king Rimuš, whom his courtiers killed with their seals”.
According to the Sumerian King List, his reign lasted 9 years (some copies indicate 7 or 15 years.) There is a preserved year-name from an unknown year in his reign: "mu ud-nun{ki} / adab{ki} hul-a = Year when Adab was destroyed". Tradition holds that he was assassinated, as the Bārûtu, a first-millennium compendium of divination practices, records “Omen for King Rimuš, whom his advisors killed with their seals”.