Footnote 6 – The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?

In the long but still incomplete series of kings of Elam, the element Kudur or Kutir (Biblical Chador) occurs with Kutir-Nahhunte I (c. 1720 B.C.), Kutir-Shilhaha I (c. 1630 B.C.), Kutir-Nahhunte II (c. 1500 B.C.), Kutir-Nahhunte III (c. 1150 B.C.) and Kutir-Nahhunte IV (c. 692 B.C.), and the latter’s non-reigning grandson Kudur (c. 650 B.C.). See W. Hinz, Das Reich Elam (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1964) pp. 150–152; and J. Boardman, I.E.S. Edwards et al. (eds.), Cambridge Ancient History (Cambridge Univ. Press) 3rd ed. II/1, 1973, 272, 820–821; II/2, 1975, 1041; and III/2, 1991, 748.