ready had a local history;[1] but its political fate was inextricably bound up with the city Awan, where there now (ca. 2670 b.c.) began to rule a dynasty of kings, twelve in number.[2]
Peli founded the dynasty; and, if names are to be trusted, his immediate successors were all pure Elamites. To us these rulers—Tata,[3] Ukku-tahesh, Hishur, Shushun-tarana, Napi-ilhush, and Kikku-sime-temti—are no more than names, though we might, with some degree of probability, ascribe to one of them an inscription since found on Liyan, modern Bushire, an island in the Persian Gulf. Fragmentary though it is, this text with its archaic signs is yet proof that by the time of Sargon of Agade the Elamites had adopted the Sumerian script to write their own language.[4] With the eighth member of the dynasty, Luhhi-ishshan, and his successor, Hishep-
- ↑ Scheil, Mém., VI, 59 ff., and Vol. XVII. For the seal imprints cf. L. Legrain, Mém., Vol. XVI.
- ↑ Scheil, "Dynasties élamites d'Awan et de Simaš," RA, XXVIII (1931), 1–8, now definitive in Mém., XXIII, iv. In an old Hurrian text discovered at Boghazköy a certain Autalummash is named as a king of kings of Elam preceding Manishtusu; cf. E. Forrer, Die Boghazköi-Texte im Umschrift, Band II, Heft 2 ("Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft," Band XLII, Heft 2 [Leipzig, 1926]), 25*, now in Brandenstein, Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi, Vol. XXVIII (Berlin, 1934), No. 38 iv 8 ff. From our present data we are unable to verify or to deny the truth of this statement.
- ↑ The last signs of the names Peli and Tata are doubtful.
- ↑ Texts from the papers of L. K. Tavernier, published by François Lenormant, Choix de textes cunéiformes, p. 127, No. 41; cf. Hüsing, Quellen, No. 1.
