Kalibum of Kish was the seventh

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

Sumerian king list The ''Sumerian King List'' (abbreviated ''SKL'') or ''Chronicle of the One Monarchy'' is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and king ...

''. This name is written "''Ga-lí-bu-um'' ... normalized as ''Kalibum''", and is believed to be derived from the Akkadian for 'hound'. Ran Zadok : ''The Pre-hellenistic-Israelite Anthroponymy and Prosopography''. Peeters Publishers, 1988. p. 101 Kalibum 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).

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