Bad-tibera was Dumuzi the Shepherd’s patron city, the second Mesopotamian city-state to hold kingship in the era before the Great Flood. The Sumerian King List records three antediluvian rulers there before kingship moved on to Larak.
Texts About Bad-tibera
- Bad-tibera on Wikipedia
- Dumuzi’s temple hymn (his house in Bad-tibera)
- The Eridu Genesis (version 1)
- The Sumerian Great Flood (version 2)
- List of kings and cities from before the Flood
- Sumerian King List
- Complete Mesopotamian Kings List
Antediluvian Kings of Bad-tibera
Kingship was taken to Bad-tibira.
Ammilu’anna the king ruled 36,000 years.
Enmegalanna ruled 28,800 years.
Dumuzi (the Shepherd) ruled 28,800 years.
Bad-tibira was abandoned.
Kingship was taken to Larak.