Why does the Uruk King List say Antiochus I Soter ruled for 22 years?
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Look at the footnote in the linked edition. It says "[Twenty-two years is probably a scribal error.]"
The "King list VI" gives the correct number "20"; see here:
http://www.livius.org/k/kinglist/babylonian_hellenistic.html
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