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Ubaid Uruk Period Early Dynastic Akkadian Empire Ur III · Neo-Sumerian Old Babylonian Old Assyrian Middle Babylonian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian Achaemenid Persian

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~2300 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

Epic of Gilgamesh Flood Tablet in Akkadian Cuneiform - Nate Loper (43494374962)

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature and the second oldest religious text, after…

Religion & Myth

~2300 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century 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: Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin…

~2300 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

PATESI Ensi on the tablet of Lugalannatum

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 fr). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: PATESI (Sumerian reading) Ensi (Akkadian reading) on the tablet of Lugalannatum

Epic of Gilgamesh Flood Tablet in Akkadian Cuneiform - Nate Loper (43494374962)

Old Babylonian baked clay cylinder. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription mentions a capacity table. 18th-16th century BCE. From Iraq. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

PATESI Ensi on the tablet of Lugalannatum

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 005, 1928-425

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 005, 1928-426

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 084, 1933-1126a

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 084, 1933-1126c

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 084, 1933-1127

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 171, 1937-650

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 171, 1937-651

AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 378

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