# Artifacts: Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

> The 6 artifacts of Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk: photos, scans, transcriptions and documents, each with its own catalog key.

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**MYS** 0DEDNGBV59X5·[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)

# Artifacts 6

Every copy this mystery rests on, each with its own key and its distance from the original.

Photo1 step from object

[Photograph: proto-cuneiform barley account, Metropolitan Museum 1988.433.1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDPK5Q0FE5/photograph-proto-cuneiform-barley-account-metropolitan)

Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0

Dataset1 step from object

[The Uruk archaic tablets: CDLI transliterations, photographs and line art](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDRVXNAXC9/the-uruk-archaic-tablets-cdli-transliterations-photographs)

CDLI terms: transliterations reusable with attribution; photographs copyright of the holding museums; line art copyright of the publication authors

Transcription1 step from object

[The Jemdet Nasr tablets: CDLI records (MSVO 1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDRWBNJG7D/the-jemdet-nasr-tablets-cdli-records-msvo-1)

CDLI terms: transliterations reusable with attribution; images copyright of the Ashmolean Museum and Iraq Museum

Transcription1 step from object

[The Kish tablet: CDLI transliteration, photograph and line art (P005476)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDRWPZDAHN/the-kish-tablet-cdli-transliteration-photograph-and-line-art)

CDLI terms: transliteration reusable with attribution; photograph copyright National Museum of Iraq

Scan1 step from object

[The Blau monuments: OIP 104 edition and plates (PDF)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDRX06F04M/the-blau-monuments-oip-104-edition-and-plates-pdf)

Oriental Institute, University of Chicago; free PDF, copyright retained

Transcription1 step from object

[The archaic lexical lists: DCCLT composite texts and exemplars](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDRXDBQ7EN/the-archaic-lexical-lists-dcclt-composite-texts-and)

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