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~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 124
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 124. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 126
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 126. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 128
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 128. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 129
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 129. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 131
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 131. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 133
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 133. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 134
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 134. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 135
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 135. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 137
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 137. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 138
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 138. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 143
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 143. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 147
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 147. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 148
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 148. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 149
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 149. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 151*
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 151*. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 152
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 152. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 153
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 153. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
CT 50, 009
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — CT 50, 009. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
Fs Krecher 332-336 02
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — Fs Krecher 332-336 02. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
Fs Krecher 346-347 15
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — Fs Krecher 346-347 15. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
Kress 213
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — Kress 213. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
NTSŠ 0258
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — NTSŠ 0258. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
OIM A33679
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — OIM A33679. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & LiteratureDaily Life~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
SF 044
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 044. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
SF 055
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 055. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Religion & MythDaily Life~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
SF 060
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 060. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Religion & MythDaily Life~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
TSŠ 0271
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — TSŠ 0271. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Religion & MythDaily Life~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
WF 076
Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — WF 076. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Abzu-kidu 2
Dedicatory bowl inscription naming Abzu-kidug and her spouse: one of the sparse Early Dynastic records attesting elite women by name in Sumerian royal dedicatory practice, c. 2450 BCE.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
An(u)bu 3
Dedicatory inscription naming Nin-meta-bare, child of Anbu, as donor to the deity Asum — a rare personal-name attestation anchoring prosopography at an Early Dynastic Sumerian cult site c. 2450 BCE.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 02 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 02)
A votive dedication from Nippur naming a royal spouse, Aya-barag-ana — one of the rare Early Dynastic inscriptions to record a woman's active role in dedicating cult objects.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 04 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 04)
A votive dedication to Nintinuga, goddess of healing, from ~2450 BCE Nippur — attesting her cult and the practice of consecrated vessel offerings a century before Sargon unified Mesopotamia.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 05 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 05)
Dedicatory inscription naming Puzur-Mama, a merchant, before the healing goddess Nintinuga — early evidence that commercial figures, not only kings or priests, commissioned votive texts at Nippur around 2450 BCE.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 06 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 06)
A votive dedication to Ninlil by a ruler named Enlila, attesting the practice of offering consecrated vessels for the welfare of family members at Nippur a full century before the Akkadian Empire.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 07 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 07)
Votive dedication naming Saĝ-diĝir-tuku and Lugal-ennu preserves personal names and the practice of interceding for named individuals before the gods in Early Dynastic Nippur.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 08 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 08)
Dedicates a vessel to the goddess Ninlil on behalf of a named field surveyor's family — attesting private votive practice by a mid-level administrative official at Nippur during the Early Dynastic III period.
Religion & MythWriting & Literature
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 21 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 21)
Preserves a dedicatory inscription naming a midwife as the dedicant — one of the earliest textual attestations of that profession in ancient Mesopotamia.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 38 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 38)
Dedicatory inscription naming Munus-šume, child of Ur-šubur, as donor of a vessel to Inana — one of the few Early Dynastic records attesting private dedicants by personal and patronymic name at Nippur.
Religion & MythWriting & Literature
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 53 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 53)
One of the surviving Early Dynastic votive dedications from the Nippur tradition, attesting the formula by which a ruler sought divine favour through temple offering a century before the Akkadian Empire.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 54 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 54)
A child of a Nippur ruler dedicates a votive vessel circa 2450 BCE, attesting the practice of elite dynastic piety through object dedication in the Early Dynastic temple economy.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 57 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 57)
A Nippur dedicatory inscription naming Ĝirini and her husband Lugal-lu: one of the rare Early Dynastic texts that preserves a private person's cultic relationship with Ninlil outside the royal sphere.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 60 (FAOS 05/2, AnNip 60)
Attests the Early Dynastic Sumerian formula linking a ruler's personal welfare to that of his household — one of the earliest epigraphic anchors for the ideology of dynastic continuity at Nippur.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Ur 17 (FAOS 05/2, AnUr 17)
A fragmentary Early Dynastic royal inscription from the Lagash-Ur-Uruk orbit, attesting the competitive temple-building rhetoric by which Sumerian rulers legitimised dynastic succession ca. 2450 BCE.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Ur 23 (FAOS 05/2, AnUr 23)
One of the fragmentary Early Dynastic royal inscriptions from the Lagash-Ur-Uruk cluster, preserving a Suen-invocation formula that documents the lunar god's role in legitimising kingship two centuries before Akkadian unification.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Uruk 2 (FAOS 05/2, AnUruk 02)
Votive dedication by a ruler claiming joint kingship over Uruk and Ur attests the practice of dual-city titulature in the Early Dynastic III period, before such formulas were standardised under later imperial regimes.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial
Stele of the Vultures
The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.
LawWriting & Literature
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Lagaš 31add
Dedicatory inscription naming the goddess Lama as owner of a votive bowl: early evidence of object consecration practice in Early Dynastic Lagaš.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
Anonymous Nippur 65add
A fragmentary Early Dynastic royal inscription from Nippur, one of the earliest attestations linking royal authority to the office of chief governor of Enlil — evidence of how Sumerian kingship was legitimised through priestly-administrative titles c. 2450 BCE.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
E-anatum 02
Records E-ana-tum of Lagaš restoring a boundary stela originally set by Me-silim — one of the earliest attestations of a ruler invoking a prior landmark to legitimize territorial claims under divine sanction.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth
~2450 BCE·Early DynasticETCSRI
E-anatum 09
Enumerates E-anatum's conquests — Elam, Arawa, Umma, Ur — and his temple-building for Ninĝirsu, anchoring the chronology of Early Dynastic Lagašite expansion roughly a generation before the Stele of the Vultures.
Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth