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TMH NF 1-2, 308

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — TMH NF 1-2, 308. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

UM 29-15-617

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — UM 29-15-617. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

UM 31-17-010

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — UM 31-17-010. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 31-43-245

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — UM 31-43-245. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 31-43-246

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — UM 31-43-246. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 35-01-147

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — UM 35-01-147. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~2350 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

Kress 017

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ebla (ca. 2350-2250 BC)) — Kress 017. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~2350 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

NMSI —

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ebla (ca. 2350-2250 BC)) — NMSI —. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

Disk of Enheduanna

The literary tradition is no longer anonymous from this point. Authorship — the idea that a specific human voice composes a specific work — enters the historical record with her.

Amarna letter. Letter from Yapahu (ruler of Gezer) to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III or son Akhenaten

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Amarna letter. Letter from Yapahu (ruler of Gezer) to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III or son Akhenaten. Yapahu requests help against Hapiru (Biblical Hebrews), a…

Daily Life

Clay tablet. Old Akkadian account text about fields. 2334-2004 BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet. Old Akkadian account text about fields. 2334-2004 BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.

Cuneiform Akkadian clay tablet 1

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Small clay tablet with cuneiform writing on both sides (in Akkadian language), from Early Old Babylonian period. It displays an account of labor, specifically refe…

Cuneiform tablet- account text concerning bitumen, Quradum archive MET ME86 11 134

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Akkadian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Cuneiform tablet- house sale contract, Quradum archive MET ME86 11 204

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Akkadian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed