# Robert K. Englund 1998: Texts from the Late Uruk Period

> Robert K. Englund, 1998. 10 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The standard synthesis of the proto-cuneiform corpus: counts, dating, numerical…

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# Texts from the Late Uruk Period

Robert K. Englund, 1998.

**Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk** Chapter0

## What it's used for here

The standard synthesis of the proto-cuneiform corpus: counts, dating, numerical systems, sign list, lexical lists, and Englund's agnostic position on the language. In P. Attinger and M. Wäfler (eds.), Mesopotamien: Späturuk-Zeit und Frühdynastische Zeit (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 160/1), Universitätsverlag Freiburg / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, pp. 13-233.

## Cited by on this site 10 records

[The Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1 to 7, W numbers)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/artifacts/ART0DEDREJXC929/the-uruk-archaic-tablets-atu-1-to-7-w-numbers)

ART

[Attempts to read Sumerian or Akkadian in the Uruk texts have not succeeded, and the texts' numeral-before-noun order…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXMW830Y8/attempts-to-read-sumerian-or-akkadian-in-the-uruk-texts-have)

Evidence

EVD

[No reading of the archaic texts as Akkadian or any other known language has succeeded, and the one Akkadian loanword…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXNJXPYX1/no-reading-of-the-archaic-texts-as-akkadian-or-any-other)

Evidence

EVD

[Plain tokens sealed in bullae and impressed on their surfaces precede and resemble the numerical signs of the Uruk V…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXNNPM05C/plain-tokens-sealed-in-bullae-and-impressed-on-their)

Evidence

EVD

[Englund publishes Texts from the Late Uruk Period and declares the language unknown](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDQR63X8QF/englund-publishes-texts-from-the-late-uruk-period-and)

EVT

[The Uruk III script stage: most of the corpus, the lexical lists and the Jemdet Nasr archive](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDQ9H29865/the-uruk-iii-script-stage-most-of-the-corpus-the-lexical)

EVT

[The first proto-cuneiform tablets are written at Uruk (Uruk IV)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDQ9ASZRB5/the-first-proto-cuneiform-tablets-are-written-at-uruk-uruk)

EVT

[Robert K. Englund](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDPAB5K3MB/robert-k-englund)

FIG

[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)

The mystery article

MYS

[What language, if any, do the proto-cuneiform texts record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT73JJJ1B/what-language-if-any-do-the-proto-cuneiform-texts-record)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Robert K. Englund (1998). Texts from the Late Uruk Period. https://cdli.earth/publications/1639049
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