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  • ...=[[Saudi Aramco]]|accessdate=30 March 2012}}</ref> recorded in [[Cuneiform|cuneiform script]] on 24 stone tablets about 1900 BC.<ref name=SAW/> It lists terms i One of three excavated [[cuneiform]] [[clay tablet]]s written in 1700 BC in [[Babylon]],<ref name=ABC/> 50 mil
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  • ...ith words in the now-long-unspoken [[Sumerian language]]. Neo-Babylonian [[cuneiform script]] was also modified to make it look like the old 3rd-millennium BC s
    25 KB (3,769 words) - 06:18, 20 July 2015
  • ...econsidered », dans P. Michalovski et N. Veldhuis (dir.), ''Approaches to Sumerian Literature, Studies in Honour of Stip (H. L. J. Vantisphout)'', Leyde et Bo ...de la ville d'Ur : fragments d'un hymne d'Išbi'erra », dans ''Journal of Cuneiform Studies'' 30/4, 1978, {{p.}}189-208 ; {{harvsp|id=Potts|Potts|1999|p=142-14
    102 KB (16,668 words) - 06:18, 9 May 2015
  • ...-7)</ref> More than 16,000 [[clay tablet|tablet]]s with [[Cuneiform script|cuneiform]] texts were discovered. Many of the objects found made their way to the [[ ...ean. During the [[Ur-III|"Sumerian Renaissance"]], the city was ruled by a Sumerian governor.
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  • ...00 and 4000 BC by a non-[[Semitic peoples|Semitic]] people who spoke the [[Sumerian language]] (pointing to the names of cities, rivers, basic occupations, etc ...sher= |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages= |doi= |accessdate=8 January 2014}}</ref> Sumerian literature speaks of their homeland being [[Dilmun]].
    61 KB (9,139 words) - 05:52, 14 May 2015
  • ...of lower Mesopotamia &mdash; commence in the mid-third millennium BC with cuneiform records of early dynastic kings, and ends with either the arrival of the [[ ...ial Aramaic|Imperial Aramaic]]. Akkadian fell into disuse, but both it and Sumerian were still used in temples for some centuries. The last Akkadian texts date
    56 KB (8,410 words) - 10:22, 19 November 2023
  • ...ed a short-lived empire, succeeding the earlier [[Akkadian Empire]], [[Neo-Sumerian Empire]], and [[Assyria#Old Assyrian Kingdom|Old Assyrian Empire]]; however ...ving been wholly subsumed by Chaldean Akkadian. The earlier Chaldeans and Sumerian traditions played a major role in Babylonian (and [[Assyria]]n) culture, an
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  • ...city.<ref name="Breasted2003">{{harvnb|Breasted|2003|p=141}}</ref> Earlier Sumerian law codes had focused on compensating the victim of the crime,<ref name="Be ...In 2010, a team of archaeologists from [[Hebrew University]] discovered a cuneiform tablet dating to the eighteenth or seventeenth century BC at [[Tel Hazor|Ha
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  • |script=[[Cuneiform script|Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform]] ...ing system, which was originally used to write ancient [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]], an unrelated [[language isolate]]. The language was named after the cit
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