The Sumerian King List includes a woman ruler — a tavern keeper.

2500 BC · 2100 BC · apart: 400 years

Kubaba supposedly ruled Kish for 100 years under the title lugal, 'king', which had no feminine form.

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• The Sumerian King Listc. 2100 BC · Nippur, Sumer. The list opens with kings who ruled before the Flood: the first, Alulim, reigned 28,800 years, and the eight antediluvian kings 241,200 years in all. After the Flood reigns 'shrank' to centuries, and Kish was ruled for 100 years by Kubaba, a tavern keeper.

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