# Joachim Krecher 1978: Sumerische Literatur der Fara-Zeit: Die UD.GAL.NUN-Texte (I)

> Joachim Krecher, 1978. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Bibliotheca Orientalis 35, pp. 155-160. Krecher's identification of the UD.GAL.NUN…

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# Sumerische Literatur der Fara-Zeit: Die UD.GAL.NUN-Texte (I)

Joachim Krecher, 1978.

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

## What it's used for here

Bibliotheca Orientalis 35, pp. 155-160. Krecher's identification of the UD.GAL.NUN system: a set of regular sign substitutions (UD for AN "god", GAL for EN "lord", NUN for LIL, hence the name) in Early Dynastic literary tablets from Fara and Abu Salabikh, which makes those texts unreadable until the substitutions are undone. Used for the definition of the UD.GAL.NUN orthography.

## Cited by on this site 6 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

[Krecher identified regular sign substitutions (UD for AN, GAL for EN, NUN for LIL) across the Fara and Abu Salabikh…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDYQRHMP6Q/krecher-identified-regular-sign-substitutions-ud-for-an-gal)

Evidence

EVD

[Joachim Krecher identifies the UD.GAL.NUN sign-substitution system in the Fara and Abu Salabikh literary texts](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDP5K96F0W/joachim-krecher-identifies-the-ud-gal-nun-sign-substitution)

EVT

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

The mystery article

MYS

[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)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Joachim Krecher (1978). Sumerische Literatur der Fara-Zeit: Die UD.GAL.NUN-Texte (I). https://keibi.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/KEI00093390
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[Find it at keibi.uni-tuebingen.de](https://keibi.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/KEI00093390)

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