The Uruk King List

Anonymous / tradition (Seleucid-period temple scribes of Uruk) · c. 160s BC (Seleucid-period copy tracing kings down to the reign of Seleucus II) · Uruk (Iraq) · history

A late chronographic tablet extending the ancient king-list genre all the way to Hellenistic Seleucid rulers argues that Babylonian scribes still framed even a Macedonian-descended king as the latest link in an unbroken chain of legitimate Mesopotamian kingship stretching back to Gilgamesh.