# The Fara (Shuruppak) UD.GAL.NUN literary tablets

> Early Dynastic IIIa literary and incantation tablets from the German excavations of 1902 and 1903 at Fara, published in Deimel's Schultexte aus Fara…

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# The Fara (Shuruppak) UD.GAL.NUN literary tablets

DocumentEarly Dynastic IIIa, c. 2600 to 2500 BC

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Early Dynastic IIIa literary and incantation tablets from the German excavations of 1902 and 1903 at Fara, published in Deimel's Schultexte aus Fara (1923) and long treated as unintelligible until Krecher recognised in 1978 that they use the UD.GAL.NUN sign-substitution system. Most of the mythological compositions in this orthography have still not been translated.

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- [Emesal in Early Dynastic Sumerian? What is the UD.GAL.NUN-Orthography?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ7JQW301/emesal-in-early-dynastic-sumerian-what-is-the-ud-gal-nun)_SRC_
- [Sumerian Literature and Sumerian Identity](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ974THN7/sumerian-literature-and-sumerian-identity)_SRC_
- [Sumerische Literatur der Fara-Zeit: Die UD.GAL.NUN-Texte (I)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ8E54H39/sumerische-literatur-der-fara-zeit-die-ud-gal-nun-texte-i)_SRC_

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Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VAT numbers), with pieces in Istanbul and Philadelphia

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Early Dynastic IIIa, c. 2600 to 2500 BC

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