Dataset · table

Archaic personal names in proto-cuneiform (editor-marked, CDLI)

540 legible personal-name entries on 41 Uruk III and Uruk IV tablets, taken from the CDLI transliterations where the editors marked each name as a ( )a group. One row per entry: tablet, publication, line, period, provenience, collection and the signs with allograph suffixes removed. 340 rows are from the Schøyen Collection and 376 are attributed to Umma with a question mark.

Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of UrukVersion 1.0Licence CC BY 4.0 (derived from CDLI transliterations, which may be reused with attribution)Updated 2 Nov 2026

Use it

import pandas as pd

url = "https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DFQRBEXWTK9/archaic-personal-names-in-proto-cuneiform-editor-marked-cdli/v1.0.csv"
tokens = pd.read_csv(url)
tokens.head()

tokens <- read.csv("https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DFQRBEXWTK9/archaic-personal-names-in-proto-cuneiform-editor-marked-cdli/v1.0.csv")
head(tokens)

SELECT * FROM read_csv_auto('https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DFQRBEXWTK9/archaic-personal-names-in-proto-cuneiform-editor-marked-cdli/v1.0.csv') LIMIT 10;

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MYSTERIES_TOKEN" -O https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DFQRBEXWTK9/archaic-personal-names-in-proto-cuneiform-editor-marked-cdli/v1.0.csv

Used by

2methods

16runs, with their results

5research sessions, S-002, S-003, S-005, S-006, S-007