# Artifacts: The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

> The 6 artifacts of The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian: photos, scans, transcriptions and documents, each with its own catalog key.

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# Artifacts 6

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

Photo1 step from object

[Photograph: Ur III Sumerian tablet, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDNNQA86GC/photograph-ur-iii-sumerian-tablet-museum-of-archaeology-and)

SpeakingArch (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo1 step from object

[The Ur III administrative archives: photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDR9JV11MK/the-ur-iii-administrative-archives-photo)

SpeakingArch (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dataset1 step from object

[The Ur III administrative archives: dataset (BDTNS)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDR9RHG137/the-ur-iii-administrative-archives-dataset-bdtns)

Manuel Molina and the BDTNS team · Copyright Manuel Molina (CSIC); free to consult online, no open licence stated

Transcription1 step from object

[Kesh Temple Hymn witness AbS-T 0284 (IM 070193): transcription on CDLI](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDRA2YP9CP/kesh-temple-hymn-witness-abs-t-0284-im-070193-transcription)

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, after Biggs 1971 and 1974 · CDLI terms: transliteration freely reusable with attribution

Translation2 steps from object

[Kesh Temple Hymn: ETCSL composite transliteration and translation (c.4.80.2)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDRACXN5NJ/kesh-temple-hymn-etcsl-composite-transliteration-and)

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (after Gragg 1969 and Civil) · ETCSL, University of Oxford; copyright terms on the site

Dataset1 step from object

[The Kuyunjik fragments: eBL Fragmentarium (database)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/copies/CPY0DEDRANECB8A/the-kuyunjik-fragments-ebl-fragmentarium-database)

electronic Babylonian Library, LMU Munich · eBL / LMU Munich; photographs copyright the Trustees of the British Museum; access to some fragments restricted