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~1900 BCE·Old Babylonian

RIAo

Šamši-Adad I 12

(1) Šamšī-[Adad (I)], king of [the world].

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2001

(1) The name of this lion is “The Sealer of the Enemy of Šamšī-Adad (I) by the Command of the Goddess Ištar.”

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianRIAo

Šamši-Adad I 2002

(1) The name of [this] lion is “The Drinker of the Blood of the Enemies of Ša[mšī-Adad (I)] by [the Command of] the Goddess [Ištar].” (8) (Belonging to) Eme[urur], (which means) “the temple of gathering together divine powers.”

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Gungunum 1

Attests an en priestess of Nanna — a royal cultic office held by a king's daughter — dedicating a storehouse to Dagan in her own name, linking Gungunum's Ur III dynasty to both lunar and grain-god patronage.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Sumu-El 1

Attests Sumu-El's construction of a sacred storehouse for Inana at Ur, anchoring his reign within the tradition of royal temple-building that legitimised kingship across the Ur III and Isin-Larsa periods.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Sumu-El 2

Attests Sumu-El's construction of Nanaya's temple E-ituda at Ur, anchoring the goddess's early cultic presence in that city within the dynastic building program of an Old Babylonian king.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Sumu-El 2002

Dedicatory inscription naming Sumu-El as king of Ur to the moon-god's consort Ningal: one of the surviving votive texts anchoring the reign of this understudied Isin-Larsa ruler.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Warad-Sin 11

Warad-Sin dedicates a temple to Inana at Zabalam and names Kudur-mabuk as his father, anchoring the Elamite-origin dynasty of Larsa within the traditional Sumerian gesture of piety-for-longevity.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Abi-sare 2006 / CDLI Seals 012801 (CDLI Seals 012801 (composite))

(1) Lugal-šuba, the scribe, child of Ur-dukuga, the slave of Abi-sare.

Writing & Literature

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Abi-sare 3add

(1) For Nanna, his master, Abi-sare, the powerful man, king of Urim, built and restored the city wall of Iškun-Suen.

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Gungunum 2

(1) For Utu, the offspring of Nanna, the heir of the E-kišnuĝal, who was born by Ningal, his master, En-ana-tuma, the zirru priestess, the en priestess of Nanna in Urim, child of Išme-Dagan, king of Sumer and Akkad, built his E-hili, built his holy storehouse, and dedicated it to him for the well-being of Gungunum, the powerful man, king of Urim, and for her (own) well-being.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Gungunum 3

(1) Gungunum, king of Larsa, king of Sumer and Akkad, the powerful heir of Samium, fashioned both the bricks and the walls of the great wall of Larsa, its name is “Utu is the vanquisher of the rebellious lands”, in a single year.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Gungunum 4

(1) Gungunum, king of Larsam, king of Sumer and Akkad.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Gungunum 5add

(i 1) When An and Enlil granted the rule over Sumer and Akkad and the leadership of the Amorite lands fully to Utu in Larsam, then Gungunum, powerful man, king of Larsam, farmer of Urim, avenger of the E-babbar, king of Sumer and Akkad, powerful heir of Samium, built the great city wall of Larsa, its name is “Utu is the vanquisher of the rebellious lands”. (ii 2) By my surpassing expertise I did drain the swamps of my city. I did make its bricks and complete the great city wall in a single year. I did make the Euphrates flow right through the middle of my city. (ii 10) In those days, during…

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Rim-Sin I 2001

(1) Iltani, daughter of Ilum-bani, presented (this) dish for the well-being of Rim-Sin, king of Larsam (and) for her own well-being to Inana of Zabalam.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1850 BCE·Old BabylonianETCSRI

Warad-Sin 30

(1) To Nanna, his lord, Warad-Sin, governor of Utu, child of Kudur-mabuk, father of the Amorite lands, dedicated this (eye-stone).

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1808 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Sumerian King List (Weld-Blundell Prism)

The single most influential Mesopotamian king list — the model for every later attempt to chronicle the deep history of the region. It transmits the political theology of divinely granted kingship, an idea that would echo through Babylon, Assyria, and into the Hebrew Bible. The Weld-Blundell prism (WB 444) at the Ashmolean is the most complete surviving copy.

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Plimpton 322

Whatever its purpose, this single tablet shows that Babylonian mathematicians, working in base-60, had an arithmetic understanding of right triangles a millennium before Pythagoras was born.

Šamši-Adad I 12

Šamši-Adad I 2001

Šamši-Adad I 2002

Gungunum 1

Sumu-El 1

Sumu-El 2

Sumu-El 2002

Warad-Sin 11

Abi-sare 2006 / CDLI Seals 012801 (CDLI Seals 012801 (composite))

Abi-sare 3add

Gungunum 2

Gungunum 3

Gungunum 4

Gungunum 5add

Rim-Sin I 2001

Warad-Sin 30

Sumerian King List (Weld-Blundell Prism)

Plimpton 322

A balbale of Inana (Inana A)

A balbale to Enki for Ishme-Dagan (Ishme-Dagan E)

A balbale to Enlil for Ur-Namma (Ur-Namma G)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana A)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana B)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana D)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana E1)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana F)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana G)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana O)

A balbale (?) to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana P)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inanna C)

A balbale to Inana as Nanaya (Inana H)

A balbale to Nanna (Nanna A)

A balbale to Nanna (Nanna B)

A balbale to Nanna (Nanna C)

A balbale to Nanna (Nanna D)

A balbale to Nanshe (Nanshe B)

A balbale to Ninazu (Ninazu A)

A balbale to Ningishzida (Ningishzida A)

A balbale to Ningishzida (Ningishzida B)

A balbale to Ninurta (Ninurta F)

A balbale to Shara (Shara A)

A hymn of Inana for Ur-Ninurta (Ur-Ninurta A)

A hymn to Asarluhi (Asarluhi XA)

A hymn to Bau's Beneficent Protective Goddess (Bau A)

A hymn to Enki for Ishme-Dagan (Ishme-Dagan X)

A hymn to Enlil for Samsu-iluna (Samsu-iluna F)

A hymn to Enlil for Samsu-iluna (Samsu-iluna H)

A hymn to Haia for Rim-Sin (Rim-Sin B)

A hymn to Hendursanga (Hendursanga A)

A hymn to Inana for Hammu-rabi (Hammu-rabi F)