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UM 29-15-864

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-864. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-15-878

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-878. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-15-881

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-881. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-15-882

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-882. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-15-886

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-886. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-15-929

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-929. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-15-931

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-931. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-15-933

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-933. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-15-935

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-15-935. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-069

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-069. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-072

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-072. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-097

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-097. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-323

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-323. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-357

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-357. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-370

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-370. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-371

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-371. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-374

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-374. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-564

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-564. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-640

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-640. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-714

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-714. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-733

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-733. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 29-16-739

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 29-16-739. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 55-21-082

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 55-21-082. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 55-21-089

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 55-21-089. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 55-21-115

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 55-21-115. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 55-21-117

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 55-21-117. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 55-21-118

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 55-21-118. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UM 63-17-008

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UM 63-17-008. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

UT 1599-22

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UT 1599-22. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

WCMA 20.1.05

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — WCMA 20.1.05. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

YOS 15, 087

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — YOS 15, 087. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

ZA 092, 017

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — ZA 092, 017. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

JCS 28, 238 03

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — JCS 28, 238 03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Lipit-Eštar y1 — Lipit-Eštar became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

JCS 28, 239 04

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — JCS 28, 239 04. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Lipit-Eštar y1 — Lipit-Eštar became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

JCS 28, 240 06

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — JCS 28, 240 06. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Lipit-Eštar y1 — Lipit-Eštar became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Code of Lipit-Ishtar

One of the earliest law codes after the Code of Ur-Nammu (c. 2100 BCE), and the closest direct predecessor of Hammurabi's better-known code. Lipit-Ishtar's code is written in Sumerian — by this period a learned tongue, no longer spoken in daily life — and uses monetary compensation for personal injury, in continuity with Ur-Nammu. The legal tradition is Sumerian; Hammurabi's later innovation is largely to translate it into Akkadian and add the lex talionis.

Law

UET 1, 0222

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — UET 1, 0222. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Lipit-Eštar y1 — Lipit-Eštar became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

~1922 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

N 0406

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — N 0406. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Ninurta y2 — Year after: Ur-Ninurta became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

~1922 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

OB Contracts, pl. A1 no. 1

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — OB Contracts, pl. A1 no. 1. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Ninurta y2 — Year after: Ur-Ninurta became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

Erišum I 03

Documents Erišum I's temple construction at Aššur and its ritual furnishings — bronze duck weights and beer vats — giving the earliest detailed record of cultic equipment in an Assyrian royal building inscription.

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

Erišum I 06

Attests Erišum I's construction of Aššur's temple in the god's own city, anchoring the earliest stratum of Assyrian royal piety and the vice-regent (iššiak Aššur) titulature that defined Old Assyrian kingship.

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

Erišum I 10

Erišum I consecrates the Aššur temple 'Wild Bull' by mixing ghee and honey into the mortar — one of the earliest Assyrian royal building inscriptions, and evidence that the ritual deposit of clay cones as dynastic markers was already standard practice c. 1900 BCE.

~1900 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Šamši-Adad I 02

Claims the Emašmaš temple in Nineveh as a restoration of a structure built by Maništušu of Agade, asserting Assyrian dynastic continuity across seven generations of post-Akkadian history.

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 21

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 21. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

~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.

MythologyWriting & Literature

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.

Astronomy & Mathematics

Astronomical cuneiform tablet - AD 61

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: One of the latest dated cuneiform tablet, AD 61, Babylon, "Almanach" type. It gives the monthly positions of the planets in the zodiac, dates solstices, equinoxes, eclipses, rising of Sirius. From Bab

Astronomy & Mathematics

British Museum Flood Tablet 1

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: "The Flood Tablet. This is perhaps the most famous of all cuneiform tablets. It is the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic, and describes how the gods sent a flood to destroy the world. Like Noah, U

Mythology

Cuneiform legal tablet in case from Aleppo

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet from Alalakh still in clay envelope. Dated 1720 BC.

Law