# Bendt Alster 1982: Emesal in Early Dynastic Sumerian? What is the UD.GAL.NUN-Orthography?

> Bendt Alster, 1982. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Acta Sumerologica 4, pp. 1-6. Asks whether the UD.GAL.NUN sign substitutions of the Fara…

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# Emesal in Early Dynastic Sumerian? What is the UD.GAL.NUN-Orthography?

Bendt Alster, 1982.

**Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Article0

## What it's used for here

Acta Sumerologica 4, pp. 1-6. Asks whether the UD.GAL.NUN sign substitutions of the Fara and Abu Salabikh literary texts hide an early form of the Emesal dialect; one of the competing explanations of that orthography. Used for the UD.GAL.NUN problem.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[The Fara (Shuruppak) UD.GAL.NUN literary tablets](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/artifacts/ART0DEDQYAH6140/the-fara-shuruppak-ud-gal-nun-literary-tablets)

ART

[UD.GAL.NUN orthography](https://mysteriesdept.com/concepts/CPT0DEDZ5HH5Q47/ud-gal-nun-orthography)

CPT

[Alster raised the Emesal hypothesis in 1982 as a question; it has been neither confirmed nor refuted since, because…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDYRQK753M/alster-raised-the-emesal-hypothesis-in-1982-as-a-question-it)

Evidence

EVD

[The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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Bendt Alster (1982). Emesal in Early Dynastic Sumerian? What is the UD.GAL.NUN-Orthography?. https://ocb.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/KEI00066050
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