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added tools for the study of proto-Elamite in response to BBC story

• The Umma-Lagash border conflict

  The Umma-Lagash border conflict Artifact: Clay cone Provenience: Period: ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340) Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris Text genre, language: Royal inscription; Sumerian CDLI page Description: The text on this clay cone is also attested on a clay cylinder and on two vessel fragments. It relates a series of conflicts during the Early Dynastic III period over land and canal management in the Eden district between Lagaš and Umma, the latter a neighbour to the north along …
• Recent Publications in Assyriology - [2012]

  2013 The Sumerian World Title: H. Crawford (ed.) The Sumerian World, Routledge, London/New York, 2013. Keywords: Sumer - geography - history - language - society - culture Abstract: The Sumerian World (Table of Contents) explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts…
• Abbreviations for Assyriology - [B]

  A: tablets in the collections of the Oriental Institute, Univ. of Chicago A2: lex. series a2 = idu Ä & L: Ägypten und Levante (Wien) Aa: lex. series a2 || A = naqu; MSL 14, 201ff. AAA: Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology (Liverpool 1908 -1948)
• Proto-Elamite - [Bibliography]

  Proto-Elamite is the last un-deciphered writing system from the Ancient Near East with a substantial number of sources (more than 1600 published texts). It was used for a relatively short period around 3000 BC across what is today Iran. Proto-Elamite is a derived writing system originating from the Uruk invention of writing in southern Mesopotamia during the middle of the 4th millennium BC. Scribes in Susa in southwestern Iran took over a majority of the numerical signs as well as many of the nu…