AMQ113026 Baked Clay Prism (\'Weld-Blundell Prism\') with the Sumerian King List giving rulers from \'before the Flood\' to King Sin-magir of Isin (c.1827-17 BC) inscribed in cuneiform script, probably from Larsa, Iraq (stone) by Sumerian; height:20 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK; (add.info.: Names of the rulers of central and southern Iraq, the areas known as Akkad and Sumer (later to become Babylonia). Language of scholars was Sumerian; spoken language of ordinary people of Larsa was Akkadian. Floods in this area between the Tigris and Euphrates were prone to flooding between February and May.); 穢 Ashmolean Museum ; out of copyright.