But the relative place occupied in the series by the later monarchs is rendered very doubtful by their records being scattered and unconnected, while their styles of inscription vary but slightly.

It is most unfortunate that no writer has left us a list corresponding in Babylonian history with that which Manetho put on record for Egyptian; since we are thus compelled to arrange our names in an order which rests on little more than conjecture.
The monumental king who is thought to have approached the nearest to Gurguna is Naram-Sin, of whom a record has been discovered at Babylon, and who is mentioned in a late inscription as the builder, in conjunction with his father, of a temple at the city of Agana.

His date is probably about B.C.1750.

The seat of his court may be conjectured to have been Babylon, which had by this time risen into metropolitan conse quence.

It is evident that, as time went on, the tendency was to remove the seat of government and empire to a greater distance from the sea.