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Written on a clay tablet measuring 10.7 × 6 × 3.1 cm, [4] it is believed to have been written by a bride of the Sumerian king Shu-Sin, who reigned between 2037 BCE and 2029 BCE. The tablet is on display at the Istanbul Archaeology Museums. [5] Bridegroom, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet, Lion, dear to my heart,
Sumerian clay tablet, currently housed in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, inscribed with the text of the poem Inanna and Ebih by the priestess Enheduanna, the first author whose name is known [8] The Babylonian Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script.
The only tablets at Ebla that were written exclusively in Sumerian are lexical lists, probably for use in training scribes. [4] The archives contain thousands of copybooks, lists for learning relevant jargon, and scratch pads for students, demonstrating that Ebla was a major educational center specializing in the training of scribes. [9]
Sumerian was the last and most ancient language to be deciphered. Sale of a number of fields, probably from Isin, c. 2600 BC. The first known Sumerian-Akkadian bilingual tablet dates from the reign of Rimush. Louvre Museum AO 5477. The top column is in Sumerian, the bottom column is its translation in Akkadian. [44] [45]
Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. ... Written in Akkadian cuneiform, the ancient inscription describes the purchase of a ...
The tablets fall primarily into two styles: the earlier (building level IV) set featuring more naturalistic figures, written with a pointed stylus, and the later set (building level III) with a more abstract style, made using a blunt stylus. These correspond to the Late Uruk c. 3100 BC and Jemdet Nasr c. 3000 BC periods respectively.
For instance the Sumerian words 'tooth' [zu], 'mouth' [ka] and 'voice' [gu] were all written with the original pictogram for mouth (ð’…—). A contract for the sale of a field and a house, in the wedge-shaped cuneiform adapted for clay tablets, Shuruppak , circa 2600 BC.
These records were written in the Sumerian language in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC during the Middle Bronze Age. [1] The Sumerians invented one of the first writing systems, developing Sumerian cuneiform writing out of earlier proto-writing systems by about the 30th century BC.