ment to the fact that Sharkalisharri captured their king, Sharlak, and excuse it on that account; but we cannot pardon their overthrow of the administrative and economic order, which is indicated by the dearth of Babylonian records.
Little is known about the Gutian rule in Babylonia save the names of their kings in two dynastic lists. A few scattered inscriptions of sovereigns who do not appear in those records tell us but little of their makers. The lists themselves disagree; and, although the brief reigns which are given to the individual kings indicate a period of intense unrest and inner combat, these figures are all suspiciously alike and arouse distrust.[1] One record says that the invaders controlled the land for 124 years; another insists that
- ↑ The main list as published by Langdon in "Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts," II, 18 f., gives the following names with their lengths of rule:
Imta (error for Imbia) 3 years Kurum 1 year Ingishu 6 . . . .nedin 3 years Nikillagab 6 . . . .rabum 2 Shulme 6 Irarum 2 Elulumesh 6 Ibranum 1 year Ilimabakesh 5 Hablum 2 years Igeshaush (?) 6 Puzur-Sin, son of Hablum 7 Iarlagab 15 Iarlaganda 7 Ibate 3 [. . . .] 7 Iarla 3 Tiriga[n] 40 days The second list is incomplete; it has been published in part by Poebel, Historical and Grammatical Texts, No. 4 (cf. Poebel, Historical Texts, p. 80), and in part by L. Legrain, Historical Fragments (PBS, Vol. XIII), No. 1, p. 27. It gives only the following names:
Imbia 5 (or 3) years Warlagaba 6 years Ingishu 7 Iarlagash 3
