Run · Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

NI–body-part test with GIR3 excluded

NI names in Uruk III: NI GIR3 ×4, GIR3 NI ×1, AD NI SZU, NI ZATU811 SZU, SAG TAK4 NI ×2, SAG ERIM TAK4 NI MUSZ3 UR2 DUR2, NI SA, SUKUD NI. NI precedes GIR3 four times out of five. Archaic sign order inside a case is not fixed, so this cannot decide between possessive giri3-ni and ì-giri3 'oil for the feet'. Decision rule set before the run: if p > 0.05, treat the association as dependent on GIR3.

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Result

Run	Measured	Result	Against	Decision	Date
Run	Share of multi-sign NI names containing a body-part sign vs resampled base rate	0.417	Null median 0.083 (95%: 0–0.333)	The association does not rest only on the ambiguous GIR3. It holds at reduced strength on SZU and SAG; the pattern is 5 name types, so it is small-n.

What it used and found

Within-name position test against a shuffle

Method

MTH

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

Dataset

DAT

NI writes the possessive -ni in body-part names

Answer it tests

ANS

Parameters

corpus = Uruk IV/III name entries, body_set = SZU SAG KA IGI SZA3 GU2 KIR4 GESZTU A2 (GIR3 removed), permutations = 10000

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). NI–body-part test with GIR3 excluded [Run RUN0DG2ZTHGRFCV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DG2ZTHGRFCV

@misc{mysteriesdept_run0dg2zthgrfcv,
  title     = {NI–body-part test with GIR3 excluded},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Run, catalog key RUN0DG2ZTHGRFCV},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DG2ZTHGRFCV}
}