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~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 3007

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC) ?) — MS 3007. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 3008

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC) ?) — MS 3008. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 3161

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC)) — MS 3161. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 3163

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC) ?) — MS 3163. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 3167

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC)) — MS 3167. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 4484

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC) ?) — MS 4484. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 4530

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC)) — MS 4530. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 5052

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC) ?) — MS 5052. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

ATU 5, pl. 026, W 7227,a

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC)) — ATU 5, pl. 026, W 7227,a. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

ATU 5, pl. 081, W 9655,t

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC)) — ATU 5, pl. 081, W 9655,t. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 3162

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC) ?) — MS 3162. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 3166

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC) ?) — MS 3166. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

MS 4552

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC) ?) — MS 4552. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Clay tablet, late Uruk period, 3300-3100 BCE. Proto-cuneiform signs, food issue list " rations" written by combining a human head and a bowl. Purchased via Christie's in 1989, with contribution from the British Museum Friends

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet, late Uruk period, 3300-3100 BCE. Proto-cuneiform signs, food issue list " rations" written by combining a human head and a bowl (the triangular object…

Economy·Daily Life

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Clay tablet, record of barley and emmer. Late Uruk period, 3300-3100 BCE. Purchased via Christie's, no provenance

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet, late Uruk period, 3300-3100 BCE. Emmer wheat is differentiated from barley by writing numbers with extra strokes. The proto-cuneiform signs document ba…

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Numerical and proto cuneiforms tablets - Oriental Institute

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Numerical tablet (left), numerical-ideographic tablet (center) and proto-cuneiform tablet (right), from the collections of the Oriental Institute of Chicago. Late Uruk perio…

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Pre-cuneiform writing tablet noting food ratios, Archives from the Temple of the Sky God, from Uruk (Irak), Late Uruk Period, around 3300 BC, Louvre Lens, France (26939082575)

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The first documents written on clay tablets appeared in Uruk IV, around 3300 BC.

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Proto-cuneiform sexagesimal type Sa.svg

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Proto-cuneiform numeral signs base 60 and subbase 10, Type S^a according to the typology established by Nissen-Damerow-Englund, Archaic Bookkeeping, Chicago UP 1993

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Proto cuneiform sign for wool

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Proto-cuneiform sign SIG2. Depicts wool.

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Proto cuneiform sign for wool variant

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: proto cuneiform sign

~3300 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Proto-Cuneiform Sign U+12033 APIN.svg

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Proto-Cuneiform Sign U+12033 APIN

~3200 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

Writing & Literature·Economy

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

BSOAS 62, 116

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — BSOAS 62, 116. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLI Lexical 000002, ex. 176

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLI Lexical 000002, ex. 176. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLI Lexical 000002, ex. 182

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLI Lexical 000002, ex. 182. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLI Lexical 000002, ex. 185

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLI Lexical 000002, ex. 185. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLI Lexical 000002, ex. 186

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLI Lexical 000002, ex. 186. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLI Lexical 000022, ex. 031

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLI Lexical 000022, ex. 031. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLI Lexical 000023, ex. 097

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLI Lexical 000023, ex. 097. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLI Lexical Archaic Unidentified, ex. 127

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLI Lexical Archaic Unidentified, ex. 127. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLI Lexical Archaic Unidentified, ex. 128

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLI Lexical Archaic Unidentified, ex. 128. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CDLN 2015/004

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CDLN 2015/004. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 008

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 008. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 013

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 013. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 022

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 022. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 023

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 023. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 024

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 024. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 027

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 027. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 028

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 028. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 029

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 029. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 032

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 032. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 035

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 035. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 038

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 038. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 041

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 041. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 042

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 042. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 043

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 043. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 048

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 048. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 052

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 052. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 054

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 054. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

CUSAS 01, 056

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 056. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).