Arwium of

Kish Kish may refer to: Geography * Gishi, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, a village also called Kish * Kiş, Shaki, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality also spelled Kish * Kish Island, an Iranian island and a city in the Persian Gulf * Kish, Iran, ...

was the twelfth

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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 ...

''. His father was

Mashda Mashda of Kish was the eleventh Sumerian king in the First Dynasty of Kish, according to the ''Sumerian king list''. He was a son of the king Atab. Like the other members of the First dynasty prior to Etana, he was named for an animal; his name "M ...

, the previous ruler. Like the other members of the First dynasty prior to

Etana Etana (, ''E.TA.NA'') was the probably fictional thirteenth king of the first dynasty of Kish. He is listed in the ''Sumerian King List'' as the successor of Arwium, the son of Mashda, as king of Kish. The list also calls Etana "the shepherd, ...

, he was named for an animal; his name "Arwium" is

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for "male gazelle".Jacobsen, ''Sumerian King List'', p. 80 n.60 Arwium 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).

References

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