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Period | Chronological Range | Royal Inscription | Votive texts | Annals | Standard inscription | Chronicles | Autobiographies |
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Pre-Writing | ca. 8500-3500 BC | ||||||
Uruk V | ca. 3500-3350 BC | ||||||
Uruk IV | ca. 3350-3200 BC | ||||||
Uruk III | ca. 3200-3000 BC | ||||||
Proto-Elamite | ca. 3100-2900 BC | ||||||
Early Dynastic I-II | ca. 2900-2700 BC | very few (see http://cdli.ucla.edu/P453401) | |||||
Early Dynastic IIIa | ca. 2700-2500 BC | few (see for example http://cdli.ucla.edu/P222741) | |||||
Early Dynastic IIIb | ca. 2500-2340 BC | common | |||||
Ebla | ca. 2350-2250 BC | ||||||
Old Akkadian | ca. 2340-2200 BC | common | |||||
Linear Elamite | ca. 2200 BC | corpus consists only of royal inscriptions | |||||
Lagash II | ca. 2200-2100 BC | common | |||||
Harappan | ca. 2200-1900 BC | ||||||
Ur III | ca. 2100-2000 BC | common | |||||
Early Old Babylonian | ca. 2000-1900 BC | ||||||
Old Assyrian | ca. 1950-1850 BC | ||||||
Old Babylonian | ca. 1900-1600 BC | ||||||
Middle Hittite | ca. 1500-1100 BC | ||||||
Middle Babylonian | ca. 1400-1100 BC | ||||||
Middle Assyrian | ca. 1400-1000 BC | ||||||
Middle Elamite | ca. 1300-1100 BC | ||||||
Neo-Assyrian | 911-612 BC | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
Neo-Elamite | 770-539 BC | ||||||
Neo-Babylonian | 626-539 BC | ||||||
Achaemenid | 547-331 BC | ||||||
Hellenistic | 323-63 BC | ||||||
Parthian | 247 BC - 224 AD | ||||||
Sassanian | 224-641 AD |