The Jemdet Nasr tablets (MSVO 1)

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About 240 Uruk III tablets from Mound B at Jemdet Nasr, found in 1926 and 1928 and divided between Oxford and Baghdad. First copied by Langdon in 1928, re-edited by Englund and Grégoire in 1991. The second archive of the corpus and the type site of its later phase.

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

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Jemdet Nasr tablets (MSVO 1) [Artifact ART0DEDRFF9SPJ7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDRFF9SPJ7

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