# The archaic lexical lists: Professions (Lu A) and Tribute (Word List C)

> Fixed sequences of signs copied by Uruk III scribes and, in the same order, at Fara, Abu Salabikh and Ebla and in Old Babylonian schools 1,300 years…

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# The archaic lexical lists: Professions (Lu A) and Tribute (Word List C)

DocumentCC BY-SA 3.0 (Oracc)Uruk III, c. 3200-3000 BC (earliest exemplars)

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Fixed sequences of signs copied by Uruk III scribes and, in the same order, at Fara, Abu Salabikh and Ebla and in Old Babylonian schools 1,300 years later, where they carry Sumerian readings. The Professions list of about 120 titles and the 94-case Tribute list are the two most copied. They are the main bridge between the unread archaic signs and readable Sumerian.

Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, and Iraq Museum, Baghdad (Uruk exemplars), 1700. CC BY-SA 3.0 (Oracc)

## Copies 1

**Dcclt composite texts and exemplars** oracc.museum.upenn.edu · CC BY-SA 3.0 (Oracc)Primary source: [DCCLT: Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, archaic lexical lists](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKGX20MPZ/dcclt-digital-corpus-of-cuneiform-lexical-texts-archaic)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dcclt/)

## Where it is kept

[Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/places/PLC0DEDNXNJ4RF4/vorderasiatisches-museum-berlin) · Museum

## Sources 5

- [A Quantitative Analysis of Proto-Cuneiform Sign Use in Archaic Tribute](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJQ7HN4AW/a-quantitative-analysis-of-proto-cuneiform-sign-use-in)_SRC_
- [DCCLT: Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, archaic lexical lists](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKGX20MPZ/dcclt-digital-corpus-of-cuneiform-lexical-texts-archaic)_SRC_
- [Die lexikalischen Listen der archaischen Texte aus Uruk (ATU 3)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHQWE5Q1C/die-lexikalischen-listen-der-archaischen-texte-aus-uruk-atu)_SRC_
- [How Did They Learn Cuneiform? Tribute/Word List C as an Elementary Exercise](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK83AA70B/how-did-they-learn-cuneiform-tribute-word-list-c-as-an)_SRC_
- [Remarks on AD-GI4 (a.k.a. "Archaic Word List C" or "Tribute")](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK8AJ0N8X/remarks-on-ad-gi4-a-k-a-archaic-word-list-c-or-tribute)_SRC_

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