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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

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.

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

~2300 BCE

·Akkadian Empire

Editorial

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.

Economy·Daily Life

~2300 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

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…

Economy·Daily Life

~2300 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

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

Economy·Daily Life

~2300 BCE·Akkadian EmpireEditorial

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

Economy·Daily Life

~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…

Disk of Enheduanna

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

Cuneiform Akkadian clay tablet 1

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

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

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

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

AAS 011

AAS 203

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