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    genitive construction. It is first attested in the Uruk period. In earliest cuneiform texts from Uruk and Ur it was written as (d)LAK-32.NA, with NA possibly...
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  • Mesopotamian goddess associated with Kullaba, a district belonging to the city of Uruk. Her character is poorly known beyond her role as a tutelary goddess of this...
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    deities. Inanna was also the most important deity in Uruk and a number of other political centers in the Uruk period. Gudea regarded Ninhursag, rather than Enki...
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  • worshiped in Nippur. Later attestations are available from Assyria and from Uruk. He also appears in a number of literary texts. Gibil (dgibil6) is considered...
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  • found in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greek mythology, in the Aramaic Uruk incantation, incorporated in Mandaean incantations, as well as in Jewish...
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    Akkil, but in the Early Dynastic Period she was already worshiped in nearby Uruk. She was also introduced to the pantheon of the state of Lagash, where her...
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  • the value of which is even lower than those estimated for Mari (50,000); Uruk and Umma (40,000); Memphis, Ebla, Urkesh, and Shuruppak (30,000) (p. 28)...
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    artifacts are 10,000 pieces that came from Assur, Nippur, Lagaş, Girsu, Uruk, Şurupak, Sippar, Niniveh excavations. Palestinian objects are from Tell...
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    mythological demon shown in artistic representation from the earliest (late Uruk period) times with the arms, torso and head of a human and the ears, horns...
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  • 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate. Shuruppak...
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    that he "subjugated the Four Corners". The second, Lugalzaggesi, king of Uruk, conquered the entirety of Lower Mesopotamia and claimed (despite this not...
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    with older narratives, he is apparently well known to the inhabitants of Uruk, rather than an unexpected encountered in the forest without prior notice...
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    pp. 299-301, 1927 Max Freiherr von Oppenheim, "Der Tell Halaf, Eine neue Kultur im ältesten Mesopotamien", F. A. Brockhaus, 1931 E. Cancik-Kirschbaum, "Die...
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    Bild-Buchstaben und symbolische Zeichen: Die Herausbildung der Schrift der hohen Kultur Altägyptens. (= Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 205). Fribourg 2004,...
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    Whittaker is that the language of the proto-literary texts from the Late Uruk period (c. 3350–3100 BC) is really an early Indo-European language which...
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    "The Assyrian Invasions of Egypt (673-663 B.C.) and the Final Expulsion of the Kushites". Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur. 34: 251–267. JSTOR 25157757....
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    ihrer Nachwelt; page 22-31. Walter Bryan Emery: Ägypten, Geschichte und Kultur der Frühzeit 3200-2800 v. Chr. Fourier, München 1964, page 90. Alan Henderson...
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    Hogarth), New York:Cowles Book Company, 1969. M. Salvini, Geschichte und Kultur der Urartäer, Darmstadt 1995. R. B. Wartke, Urartu — Das Reich am Ararat...
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    evidence of such long-distance trade is in the ancient world. During the Uruk period, Guillermo Algaze has argued that trade relations connected Egypt...
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  • K. N., and Chernykh, E. N. Eds., Kavkaz v sisteme paleometallicheskikh kultur Evrazii, Metsniereba, Tbilisi, 1989, pp. 146–156.).[full citation needed]...
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  • April 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2015. François Daumas, (1969). Ägyptische Kultur im Zeitalter der Pharaonen, pp. 309. Knaur Verlag, Munich John Romer, Ancient...
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    Gerhard Höpp in Peter Heine, ed., Al-Rafidayn: Jahrbuch zu Geschichte und Kultur des modernen Iraq (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 1995), (http://www.zmo...
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    in Europe and Asia. The term Corded Ware culture (German: Schnurkeramik-Kultur) was first introduced by the German archaeologist Friedrich Klopfleisch...
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    Khaled; Ruprechtsberger, Erwin Maria (eds.). Palmyra, Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur der Syrischen Oasenstadt: Einführende Beiträge und Katalog zur Ausstellung...
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    Dodson & Hilton 2004. Emery, Walter Bryan. Ägypten – Geschichte und Kultur der Frühzeit. pp. 47ff. Wilkinson 1999, p. 70. Dodson & Hilton 2004, p. 46...
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  • Dilbat (Ipte-bita and Belet-eanni). Further examples are also known from Uruk, Nippur, Eridu in southern Babylonia and Arbela in Assyria. Based on the...
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    Egyptian Empire in the Early 18th Dynasty". Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur. 43: 109–122. JSTOR 44160271. Herslund, Ole (2018). "Chronicling Chariots:...
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    pre-proto-Hassuna period. The site of Umm Dabaghiyah (de:Umm Dabaghiyah-Sotto-Kultur), in the same area of Iraq, is believed to have the earliest pottery in...
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    depicted on cylinder seals in Mesopotamia c. 3000 BC, perhaps as early as the Uruk period (4000–3100BC) and subsequent Proto-Elamite (Jemdet Nasr) period. An...
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    Mesopotamia the moon god was Sin (called Nanna at Ur), the fertility goddess of Uruk being Ishtar, the great. god of Babylon being Marduk. Brandon (ed.), Dictionary...
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