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[[Most Important Cuneiform Objects 21-30]]
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 +[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=figure_aux_plumes|21. Figure aux plumes]]
 +[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=figure_aux_plumes|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P220632_detail.jpg?100}}]]
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 +A poorly understood stone land-sale document, possibly showing one of the earliest images of an anthropomorphic god in Mesopotamia. [[figure_aux_plumes|More information...]]
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 +//Artifact//: Stone tablet\\ 
 +//Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ 
 +//Period//: Early Dynastic I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)\\ 
 +//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 221)\\ 
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 +[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=old_assyrian_limmu_list|22. The Old Assyrian Limmu List]]
 +[[old_assyrian_limmu_list|{{ image.jpg?100}}]]
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 +A list of years named after officials, one important tool for establishing a chronology of first part of the first millennium B.C.  [[old_assyrian_limmu_list|More information...]]
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 +//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
 +//Provenience//: Kültepe\\ 
 +//Period//: Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)\\ 
 +//Current location//: Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi, Ankara (kt 92/k 0193) \\ 
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 +[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=reforms_of_urukagina|23. The Reforms of UruKAgina]]
 +[[reforms_of_urukagina|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P222607_detail.jpg?100}}]]
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 +The Sumerian king Urukagina shows he is a just ruler, describing in this document a number of legal and social reforms - including a debt cancellation. [[reforms_of_urukagina|More information...]]
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 +//Artifact//: Clay cone\\ 
 +//Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ 
 +//Period//: ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340)\\ 
 +//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris\\  
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 +[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=architecte_au_plan|24. Architecte au Plan]]
 +[[architecte_au_plan|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/p431884detail.jpg?100}}]]
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 +On this inscribed statue, seated king Gudea holds in his lap a drawn plan of Ningirsu's temple [[architecte_au_plan|More information...]]
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 +//Artifact//: Stone statue\\ 
 +//Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ 
 +//Period//: Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)\\ 
 +//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 2)\\  
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 +[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=umma_lagash_border_conflict|25. The Umma-Lagash border conflict]]
 +[[umma_lagash_border_conflict|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P222532_detail.jpg?100}}]]
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 +A series of conflicts over land and irrigation rights, between two neighbouring city-states in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia. [[umma_lagash_border_conflict|More information...]]
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 +//Artifact//: Clay cone\\ 
 +//Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ 
 +//Period//: ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340)\\ 
 +//Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/cone-enmetena-king-lagash|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ 
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 +[[letter_tushratta_amenhotep|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
 +[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=letter_tushratta_amenhotep |26. EA 17, a letter of the Mitannian king Tushratta to Pharaoh Amenhotep III]]
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 +In which Tushratta of Mittanni presents Pharaoh Amenhotep III with booty from the land of Hatti. [[letter_tushratta_amenhotep|More information...]]
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 +//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
 +//Provenience//: Amarna\\ 
 +//Period//: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ 
 +//Current location//: British Museum, London (BM 29792)\\ 
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 [[blau_monuments|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P005996_detail.jpg?100|}}]] [[blau_monuments|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P005996_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=blau_monuments |23. The Blau Monuments]]+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=blau_monuments |27. The Blau Monuments]]
  
 A third millennium monument with figures in relief, possibly recording the exchange of large tracts of land for other goods [[blau_monuments|More information...]] A third millennium monument with figures in relief, possibly recording the exchange of large tracts of land for other goods [[blau_monuments|More information...]]
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 [[earliest_known_mathematical_exercise|{{ http://cdli.ucla.edu/images/P003118detail.jpg?100|}}]] [[earliest_known_mathematical_exercise|{{ http://cdli.ucla.edu/images/P003118detail.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=earliest_known_mathematical_exercise |24. The earliest known mathematical exercise ]]+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=earliest_known_mathematical_exercise |28. The earliest known mathematical exercise ]]
  
 This account represents a hallmark in the history of science and played a role in important studies of the earliest numerical systems. [[earliest_known_mathematical_exercise|More information...]] This account represents a hallmark in the history of science and played a role in important studies of the earliest numerical systems. [[earliest_known_mathematical_exercise|More information...]]
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 [[laws_ur_nammu|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/p250820detail.jpg?100|}}]] [[laws_ur_nammu|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/p250820detail.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=laws_ur_nammu |25. The Laws of Ur-Nammu]]+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=laws_ur_nammu |29. The Laws of Ur-Nammu]]
  
 Written in Sumerian, this is the earliest known law collection from ancient Mesopotamia. [[laws_ur_nammu|More information...]] Written in Sumerian, this is the earliest known law collection from ancient Mesopotamia. [[laws_ur_nammu|More information...]]
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 [[early_literary_catalogue|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P275014_detail.jpg?100|}}]] [[early_literary_catalogue|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P275014_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=early_literary_catalogue |26. An early literary catalogue]]+[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=early_literary_catalogue |30. An early literary catalogue]]
  
 A rare piece of evidence for the debate regarding the extent of Sumerian literary traditions at the end of the third millennium B.C. [[early_literary_catalogue|More information...]] A rare piece of evidence for the debate regarding the extent of Sumerian literary traditions at the end of the third millennium B.C. [[early_literary_catalogue|More information...]]
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 //Period//: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)\\  //Period//: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)\\ 
 //Current location//: Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven (YBC 03654)\\  //Current location//: Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven (YBC 03654)\\ 
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-[[how_to_read_signs|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]] 
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to_read_signs |27. How to read signs]] 
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-An important tool for modern scholars attempting to attach phonetic values to Sumerian signs.  [[how_to_read_signs|More information...]] 
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-//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\  
-//Provenience//: \\  
-//Period//: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)\\  
-//Current location//: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Ashm 1923-401)\\  
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-[[tiglath_pilesars_annalistic_text|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/ma_tiglathpileser.jpg?100|}}]] 
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=tiglath_pilesars_annalistic_text |28. Tiglath-pilesar's annalistic text]] 
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-Featuring in the famous 19th century decipherment challenge of the Royal Asiatic Society, independent translations of this text 'proved' that cuneiform texts were once again readable, after two thousand years of obscurity. [[tiglath_pilesars_annalistic_text|More information...]] 
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-//Artifact//: Clay prism\\  
-//Provenience//: Assur\\  
-//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\  
-//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\  
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-[[succession_treaty_essarhadon|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]] 
-[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=succession_treaty_essarhadon |29. The Succession Treaty of Essarhadon]] 
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-Esarhaddon's treaty to establish Aššurbanipal as his successor to the throne of Assyria in the seventh century BCE. [[succession_treaty_essarhadon|More information...]] 
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-//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\  
-//Provenience//: \\  
-//Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\  
-//Current location//: \\  
  
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