# Cooper judges the UD.GAL.NUN compositions very hard to understand and thinks they left the curriculum before Ur III…

> Cooper judges the UD.GAL.NUN compositions very hard to understand and thinks they left the curriculum before Ur III, which would mean no later duplicates…

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# Cooper judges the UD.GAL.NUN compositions very hard to understand and thinks they left the curriculum before Ur III…

Cooper judges the UD.GAL.NUN compositions very hard to understand and thinks they left the curriculum before Ur III, which would mean no later duplicates exist to be found.

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## What it means

Key question[Why do the Early Dynastic literary texts from Fara and Abu Salabikh resist reading, and can they be read without later duplicates?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3AM4NHK/why-do-the-early-dynastic-literary-texts-from-fara-and-abu)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Only texts with later duplicates can be read](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/answers/ANS0DEDWX41X1XH/only-texts-with-later-duplicates-can-be-read)

Supports2 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 1

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Compile the full UD.GAL.NUN substitution table from Krecher, Krebernik and Lisman and test its regularity across the Fara and Abu Salabikh tablets on CDLI.

~20 h

[On: Why do the Early Dynastic literary texts from Fara and Abu Salabikh resist reading, and can they be read without later duplicates?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3AM4NHK/why-do-the-early-dynastic-literary-texts-from-fara-and-abu)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 1

[Sumerian Literature and Sumerian Identity](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ974THN7/sumerian-literature-and-sumerian-identity)

Cooper 2016

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Cooper judges the UD.GAL.NUN compositions very hard to understand and thinks they left the curriculum before Ur III… [Evidence EVD0DEDYSNXZZ9Q]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYSNXZZ9Q
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