Later record c. 2100–1800 BC, copies to the Old Babylonian period

A dynastic list asserting that kingship “descended from heaven”, moving city to city, interrupted by the Flood. Antediluvian reigns run to tens of thousands of years; post-Flood reigns fall away toward ordinary lifespans.

Not a neutral chronicle. It presents as sequential some dynasties now known from inscriptions to have been contemporaries — a political claim that kingship is single and passes between cities, rather than plural and simultaneous.

Standing: Written well after the events, from tradition or earlier copies.