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GENESIS XIV. 1 2 1
(G. Smith, "Notes on the Chronology of the reign of Sen-
nacherib" Lond. 1871 p. 10). He was the son of Kudur-
Mabug; king of Ur and also king of Sumir and Akkad
i. e. of the superior monarch to whom he held, as long as
he lived; the position of a vassal-king. As the name
of his father Kudur-Mabug and of his grandfather
Simti-silhak show, he belonged to the Babylonian
Elamite dynasty, the same as that to which, as we conclude
from the name, Kedorlaomer = Kudur-Lagamar belonged
(see below). — "^P?^ Elldsdr, we regard as unquestionably
the Babylonian Lars a or Lars a v* in which there was a
celebrated temple of the sun, represented at the present
day by the ruins of Senkereh , about midway between the
Euphrates and the Tigris, between Lat 32° and SI*' (H.
Rawlinson, Smith, Lenormant). With respect to the ruins
consult chiefly W. K. Loftus, Chald. and Susiana pp. 240 136
foil. The city owed its importance to its being a chief
seat of the worship of Samas or the sun-god (comp. the
oldest brick-inscriptions of Uruk (?) found there I Rawl. 1.
VII; those of Hammurabi(gas) I Rawl. 4, XV. 2; also
those of Purnapurjas 4, XIII as well as of Nebucadnezar
I Rawl. 51, no. 2; 5 2, no. 5). The temple of the sun
at Larsav-Senkereh still existed at the time of Nabtina'id
(I Rawl. 68 no. 4).
1P^7~'7? Kedorlaomer , king of Elam. Other examples
are preserved in the inscriptions of the names of kings
compounded with Kudur. In the first place we have the
name of another Elamite king called Kudur-Na-hu-un-
di I'-la-mu-u ''Kudurnachundi of Elam" Sanher. Taylor
* For the reading see Neb. Gr. II, 42; Sai-g. Cyprus-pillar I (II), 15
= Norris 277. 700.