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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 story is known from three fragments representing different versions of the narrative. One is a tablet excavated from the ancient Sumerian city known as Nippur.This tablet was discovered during the Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania in 1893, and the creation story was recognized by Arno Poebel in 1912.
The Scheil dynastic tablet, containing a part of the Sumerian King List, from Uruk II to Ur III. [2] Transcription and translation in French (1911). All but one of the surviving versions of the Sumerian King List date to the Old Babylonian period, i.e. the early part of the second millennium BC.
Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. ... Cuneiform recorded Sumerian, Akkadian, and other languages of Mesopotamia, the ...
Since Sumerian law tablets are extremely rare, I had No. 3191 brought to my working table at once. There it lay, a sun-baked tablet, light brown in color, 20 by 10 centimeters in size. More than half of the writing was destroyed, and what was preserved seemed at first hopelessly unintelligible.
George, Andrew R. 1986. “Sennacherib and the Tablet of Destinies.” Iraq 48: 133–46. Sonik, Karen. 2012. “The Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma Eliš.” In Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East, edited by Gernot Wilhelm, 387–95. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
The ancient Sumerian king list includes the early dynasties of several prominent cities from this period. The first set of names on the list is of kings said to have reigned before a major flood occurred. These early names may be fictional, and include some legendary and mythological figures, such as Alulim and Dumizid. [53]
The Tu-Ta-Ti scribe study tablets are tablets written in Cuneiform found all over Mesopotamia, used for a diverse set of languages, along a vast timespan of periods, and over many different cultures. The text originated in materials created for the study of writing ancient Sumerian , the language for which Cuneiform, with its signs and sounds ...
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