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was the fifth

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ian king in the First Dynasty of Kish, according to the ''

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''. William W. Hallo
Beginning and End of the Sumerian King List in the Nippur Recension
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'', 17 (1963), p 53 Babum is unlikely to have existed as his name does not appear on texts dating from the period in which he was presumed to have lived ( Early Dynastic period). Like other leader of the first dynasty, his name is an Akkadian word, bābum meaning "gate".

References

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