The Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1 to 7, W numbers)

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About 5,000 clay tablets and fragments from the Eanna precinct at Uruk, 1928 to 1976: about 190 Uruk V numerical tablets, 1,776 Uruk IV and 3,094 Uruk III texts, almost all accounts, found in secondary fill. The whole corpus of the problem except for Jemdet Nasr, Umma and a few small groups.

Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, and Iraq Museum, Baghdad. CDLI terms: transliterations reusable with attribution; photographs copyright of the holding museums; line art copyright of the publication authors

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1 to 7, W numbers) [Artifact ART0DEDREJXC929]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDREJXC929

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  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
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