The prism was found in a 1922 expedition in Larsa in modern-day Iraq by British archaeologist Herbert Weld Blundell and is housed in The Ashmolean Museum - number is AN1923.444. The Sumerian King List illustrates the Middle Bronze Age political scene. It is a list of the Sumerian and neighboring dynasties. This document contains the supposed reign lengths and ruled territories. Nevertheless, it is not a pure historical document but a combination of myth, legend and historical information.
Sources:
- Piotr Michałowski, "History as Charter Some Observations on the Sumerian King List", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 103 (1983), no. 1, pp. 237–248
- M. B. Rowton, "The Date of the Sumerian King List", Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 19 (1960), no. 2, pp. 156–162
- Piotr Steinkeller, "An Ur III Manuscript of the Sumerian King List", in Literatur, Politik und Recht in Mesopotamien: Festschrift fur Claus Wilcke, ed. W. Sallaberger et al., Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003, pp. 267–92,
- https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/462921
- Sumerian King List - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core