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~3100 BCE·Uruk PeriodEditorial

Trudy Otdela Vostoka 3 p. 27ff.:2

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — Trudy Otdela Vostoka 3 p. 27ff.:2. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & MythDaily Life

~2800 BCE·

Early Dynastic

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MS 1952/37

1. [fish (KU6~a)] TU~b 2. NAM2 NAM2 3. NAM2(?) GIR2~b 4. DU AN A 5. SZUDUN(?) RI 6. SZUDUN(?) GIR2~b 7. [X] A NI~b 8. NE~a U4 RA 9. NI~b RA 10. SZE3 BU~a 11. U4 SZIDIM GIR3@g~b[?] 12. IL GUB3~c [X] 13. [X] ZATU726~a(?) UR~a(?) NI~b DUR2(?) 14. HI A[?]

Religion & MythDaily Life

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

CDLI Literary 006205, ex. 010

[...] she-goat(?) [LAK20] — [...] place(?) — not having [...] ... place GU [...] LUM — not having [...] servant/Subarian [...] MAR — not having [... ...] ... not(?) — [dairy/ghee?] [complex sign cluster] — not eggs/roe — fish — not LI TAR [...] ... [...] KU [... ...]

Religion & MythDaily Life

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticOur engine

CUSAS 32, 002

Enuru, [... serpent(?),] dark — of the Abzu [...]; its tail rising, its nature — the mouth opened and opened. Its mouth-enclosure — matched, declared. The serpent bites; the great dragon bites. The spotted field — [pure-water ...] [laden-water ...] [...] ... The serpent — its mouth laden. Its tongue, the voice — very small, very small — filled. The serpent — mouth burdened — [the sun's mouth?] — may it not [harm ...] [harm ...]. The sanga-administrator Ur-Gibil, the scribe, [wrote it].

Religion & Myth

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

CUSAS 17, 001

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC) ?) — CUSAS 17, 001. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & MythWriting & Literature

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

RIME 1.15.add006.01, ex. 01

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — RIME 1.15.add006.01, ex. 01. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

SF 082

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 082. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Astronomy & Mathematics

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

CDLB 2006/002

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — CDLB 2006/002. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 003

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 003. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & MythDaily Life

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

CDLI Literary 006205, ex. 001

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — CDLI Literary 006205, ex. 001. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & MythDaily Life

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

CDLI Literary 006205, ex. 002

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — CDLI Literary 006205, ex. 002. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & MythDaily Life

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

CUSAS 32, 001

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — CUSAS 32, 001. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

CUSAS 32, 003

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — CUSAS 32, 003. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

MSCT 1, 160, MS 3047

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC) ?) — MSCT 1, 160, MS 3047. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Astronomy & Mathematics

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

OSP 1, 001

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — OSP 1, 001. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & MythDaily Life

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

OSP 1, 003

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — OSP 1, 003. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & MythDaily Life

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

RIME 1.09.05.03, ex. add44

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — RIME 1.09.05.03, ex. add44. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

ROM 962.143.028

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC) ?) — ROM 962.143.028. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & LiteratureReligion & Myth

~2550 BCE·Early DynasticEditorial

SF 018

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 018. 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 031

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 031. 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 036

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 036. 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 038

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 038. 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 039

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 039. 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 040

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 040. 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 045

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 045. 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 049*

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 049*. 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 050

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 050. 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 050*

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 050*. 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 051

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 051. 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 052

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 052. 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 056

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 056. 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 078

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)) — SF 078. 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 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

~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