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Artifact

Period

1 Uruk V (ca. 3500-3350 BC)

1 Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC)

62 Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)

41 ED I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)

5 ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)

71 ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)

145 Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)

2 Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)

190 Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

34 Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)

103 Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

3 Middle Hittite (ca. 1500-1100 BC)

34 Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)

21 Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)

88 Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

1 Neo-Elamite (ca. 770-539 BC)

17 Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)

20 Achaemenid (547-331 BC)

1 Hellenistic (323-63 BC)

439 no value

Material

2 bitumen

1 bone > ivory

10 bone > shell

6 clay

1 clay > ceramic

9 faience

910 no value

158 stone

32 stone > igneous rock > diorite

9 stone > metamorphic rock > lapis lazuli

9 stone > metamorphic rock > marble

3 stone > metamorphic rock > schist

29 stone > metamorphic rock > steatite

5 stone > mineral > agate

2 stone > mineral > alabaster

4 stone > mineral > carnelian

3 stone > mineral > chalcedony

1 stone > mineral > cornelian

18 stone > mineral > hematite

7 stone > mineral > jasper

1 stone > mineral > onyx

1 stone > mineral > quartz

1 stone > mineral > rock crystal

1 stone > mineral > sardonyx

29 stone > mineral > serpentine

2 stone > quartz-dolerite

22 stone > sedimentary rock > limestone

3 stone > sedimentary rock > sandstone

Artifact type

5 seal (not impression)

1,264 seal (not impression) > Cylinder seal

10 seal (not impression) > Stamp seal

Provenience

4 Dur-Šarrukin (mod. Khorsabad)

308 Girsu (mod. Tello)

1 Kish (mod. Tell Uhaimir)

14 Larsa (mod. Tell as-Senkereh)

30 Mari (mod. Tell Hariri)

2 Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

5 Ugarit (mod. Ras Shamra)

3 Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)

1 Uruk (mod. Warka)

796 no value

1 uncertain (mod. Jemdet Nasr)

6 uncertain (mod. Tepe Sialk)

108 uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Museum Collections

1,279 Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Composite/seal

0 composite

12 composite witness

1,279 seal

0 seal impression

0 other

Textual

Language

10 Akkadian

53 Sumerian

5 Ugaritic

1,211 no value

Genre

1,276 Administrative

1 Official or display

2 no value

Publication

Authors

27 Amiet, Pierre

2 Arnaud, Daniel

23 Boehmer, Rainer

12 Collon, Dominique

1 Cros, Gaston

582 Delaporte, Louis

5 Dietrich, Manfried

43 Frankfort, Henri

9 Frayne, Douglas R.

3 Grayson, A. Kirk

5 Loretz, Oswald

1 Martin, Richard A.

68 Menant, Joachim

150 Parrot, André

3 Porter, Barbara A.

5 Sanmartín, Joaquín

1 Thureau-Dangin, François

5 Ward, William H.

6 al-Gailani Werr, Lamia

68 de Clercq, Louis

1 no value

Date of publication

68 1888

126 1909

6 1910

25 1920

431 1923

43 1939

1 1940

6 1948

150 1954

23 1965

22 1973

1 1977

8 1980

2 1987

6 1988

3 1990

2 1993

2 1994

1 1996

4 1997

3 2001

12 2005

5 2013

1 no value

Credits

Contributing project

46 Geomapping Landscapes of Writing

133 no value

Data

Artifact images

4 photo

Chemical data

0 With

1,279 Without

External link

3 Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities

1 Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts

1,137 Louvre Collections

Image Annotations

0 With

1,279 Without

Publications

822 With

457 Without

Transliteration

399 With

880 Without

Text Annotations

0 With

1,279 Without

Transcription

0 With

1,279 Without

Translation

10 With

1,269 Without

Translation Language

10 en