Kalibum of Kish was the seventh Sumerian king in the First Dynasty of Kish, according to the Sumerian king list.Thorkild Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939), pp. 78f This name is written "Ga-lí-bu-um ... normalized as Kalibum", and is believed to be derived from the Akkadian for 'hound'.Ran Zadok : The Pre-hellenistic-Israelite Anthroponymy and Prosopography. Peeters Publishers, 1988. p. 101 Kalibum is unlikely to have existed as his name does not appear on texts dating from the period in which he was presumed to have lived (Early Dynastic period).
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