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Artifact

Period

69 ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)

3 Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)

52 Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)

6 Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

8 Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Material

108 clay

1 metal

13 no value

14 stone

1 stone > mineral > alabaster

1 stone > sedimentary rock > limestone

Artifact type

1 Architectural element

2 Architectural element > socket

1 Figure > statue

2 Vessel

3 Vessel > bowl

2 Vessel > vase

1 Wall relief > Wall slab

1 Weapon > knife

2 Weapon > mace

40 brick

1 bulla

14 cone

2 cylinder

17 no value

1 seal (not impression)

3 sealing

40 tablet or envelope > tablet

2 tablet or envelope > tablet & envelope

3 tag

Provenience

138 Lagash (mod. El-Hiba)

Museum Collections

3 Archaeological Research Collection, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

1 Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK

1 Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA

1 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

2 Louvre Museum, Paris, France

72 National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

1 Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1 Russell Library, Maynooth University & St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

5 Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

3 Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

48 no value

Composite/seal

14 composite

78 composite witness

1 seal

3 seal impression

43 other

Textual

Language

1 Akkadian

128 Sumerian

9 no value

Genre

33 Administrative

3 Legal

1 Letter

4 Literary

91 Official or display

6 no value

Publication

Authors

37 Biggs, Robert D.

1 Collon, Dominique

19 Crawford, Vaughn E.

3 Delitzsch, Friedrich

46 Edzard, Dietz Otto

40 Frayne, Douglas R.

2 Gelb, Ignace J.

1 George, Andrew R.

1 Hansen, Donald P.

2 Lambert, Maurice

1 Marchesi, Gianni

3 Messerschmidt, Leopold

43 Steible, Horst

2 Steinkeller, Piotr

3 Ungnad, Arthur

2 Whiting, Robert M.

28 no value

Date of publication

3 1907

2 1969

1 1973

18 1974

37 1976

1 1977

1 1979

35 1982

10 1991

46 1997

1 1998

1 2005

40 2008

1 2011

14 no value

Credits

Contributing project

4 Electronic Babylonian Library

78 Geomapping Landscapes of Writing

3 Yale Babylonian Collection

57 no value

Data

Artifact images

69 lineart

20 photo

Chemical data

0 With

138 Without

External link

78 Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities

1 DCCLT/Reading the Signs

2 Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts

4 Electronic Babylonian Library

11 Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions

1 Penn Museum

Image Annotations

0 With

138 Without

Publications

130 With

8 Without

Transliteration

125 With

13 Without

Text Annotations

0 With

138 Without

Transcription

0 With

138 Without

Translation

24 With

114 Without

Translation Language

24 en