ABSTRACT
A series of dynasties arose there and elsewhere in Lower Mesopotamia, the sequence of which extends down to a so-called Ninth Dynasty of Babylon. These dynasties span a period of nearly one thousand years, prior to the Chaldean Dynasty and the beginning of the New Babylonian period, and comprise a Middle Babylonian period. After the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Babylonian King Lists A and B continue with a series of ten or eleven kings who ruled at an otherwise unknown capital called Urukug. After the First Dynasty of the Sealand, the Babylonian King List B breaks off, but King List A and the Synchronistic Chronicle continue. For the Kassite period, in addition to the Babylonian King List A and the Synchronistic Chronicle, there are many inscriptions of many of the Kassite kings, recovered at various sites. There is the so-called Synchronistic History, preserved on fragments in the British Museum.
