Hablum is a ruler in Mesopotamian folklore, from Sumer (southern Mesopotamia). Hablum is recorded as a Gutian ruler in the Sumerian King List (SKL), appearing in the Gutian dynasty sequence of late 3rd millennium BCE Mesopotamia. The SKL attributes a brief reign of two years to Hablum and places him between other Gutian kings such as Ibranum and Puzur-Suen.
Hablum is attested within the Sumerian King List, a Mesopotamian scribal genre that records sequences of rulers, their regnal lengths, and occasional genealogical notes. Within this textual framework Hablum functions as one entry in the Gutian dynasty roster preserved by the SKL; the list situates him among a string of Gutian names associated in Sumerian memory with a period of short, often unstable reigns. Modern presentations of the SKL treat such entries as part-historical and part-formulaic, and the attestation of Hablum is limited to his placement and regnal length in this list. The precise cuneiform orthography, linguistic origin of the name, and independent archaeological corroboration are not provided in the cited materials.
No contemporary physical, iconographic, or descriptive information for Hablum is preserved in the cited sources. He is known only as a name in the king-list texts (as reproduced in modern transcriptions and secondary mirrors), and the surviving attestations are textual entries rather than biographical portraits or monuments. Therefore there is no documented appearance.
The sources do not ascribe supernatural powers or notable deeds to Hablum. The SKL entries record only political information: his position in the sequence of Gutian rulers and a regnal length commonly given as two years. Variant transcriptions of the list provide slightly different genealogical framings in neighboring entries (for example, some mirrors render Puzur-Sin/Puzur-Suen as "son of Hablum" in one reading), but no administrative acts, battles, laws, or other behaviors are preserved for Hablum in the provided materials.
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- otherNot applicable — no supernatural attributes attested
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- otherNot applicable — no protective practices recorded
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Community Record
- [1]Hablum (Wikipedia). Wikipedia contributors, "Hablum," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopediawiki
- [2]Wikidata: Hablum. Wikidata entry Q4494419other
- [3]Sumerian King List transcriptions (SaturnianCosmology mirrors). SaturnianCosmology mirror transcriptions of the Sumerian King Listother
- [4]The Sumerian King List (Bibliotecapleyades mirror). Bibliotecapleyades mirror of SKL transcriptionsother
- [5]Archive: Zadul Ma'ad (mentions similar modern Arabic phrase elsewhere in source set). Archive holdings cited in source set (contextual note: contains unrelated Islamic phrase usages; not a primary source for the Gutian king)other