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26 ready had a local history; but its political fate was inextricably bound up with the city Awan, where there now (ca. 2670 ) began to rule a dynasty of kings, twelve in number.

Peli founded the dynasty; and, if names are to be trusted, his immediate successors were all pure Elamites. To us these rulers—Tata, Ukku-tahesh, Hishur, Shushun-tarana, Napi-ilhush, and Kikku-sime-temti—are no more than names, though we might, with some degree of probability, ascribe to one of them an inscription since found on Liyan, modern Bushire, an island in the Persian Gulf. Fragmentary though it is, this text with its archaic signs is yet proof that by the time of Sargon of Agade the Elamites had adopted the Sumerian script to write their own language. With the eighth member of the dynasty, Luhhi-ishshan, and his successor,