The legendary material could ultimately be related to the inscriptions of the 9th to 6th centuries, referring to a people that are related etymologically to Ishmaelites, or people of Ishmael, traditionally claimed to be a son of Abraham.1. And after the death of Abraham, Ishmael reigned twenty seven years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmaelites
Assyrian and Babylonian Inscriptions have referred to the Ishmaelites as "Sumu'ilu" and Ernst Knauf had written that Yisma'el is a typical West Semitic Personal name found in texts from the third millennium BC to pre-Islamic Arabic in the first half of the first millennium CE. He argues that the North Arabian "Sama'il" would be rendered "Shumu'il" by Assyrians, and would have the same meaning as "Yisma'el" and hence the Shumu'ilu tribes would be descended to an ancestor named Yisma'el, which is anglicized as Ishmael. One of the Inscriptions mentioning the Ishmaelites is Sennacherib's Annals, in column vii line 96.
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