Artifact: Clay prism
Provenience: Unprovenanced
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Current location: Louvre, Paris
Text genre, language: Lexical, deities

Description: Lists of deities and deified beings go back as far as the Early Dynastic IIIa period. It is then that the first extensive lists of gods and goddesses appear among lexical texts.

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