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      "title": "The Sumerian King List — kingship descends from heaven, the antediluvian kings and the flood, and the dynasties down to Isin"
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    "en": "The Sumerian King List",
    "de": "Die Sumerische Königsliste",
    "es": "La Lista Real Sumeria",
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    "ja": "シュメール王名表",
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    "zh": "苏美尔王表",
    "zh-Hant": "蘇美爾王表",
    "sux": "nam-lugal an-ta e₁₁-da-ba"
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  "sourceCitation": "Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zolyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/), Oxford 1998-2006. Source text c.2.1.1 used as transliteration base; English translation and all WoH content original to this project.",
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    "en": "Kingship descended from heaven — the antediluvian kings of Eridug, Bad-tibira, Larag, Zimbir and Curuppag, their impossibly long reigns, the flood that swept over, and the post-diluvian dynasties down to Isin"
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