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While early Sumerian writing was highly logographic, there was a tendency towards more phonetic spelling in the Neo-Sumerian period. [131] Consistent syllabic spelling was employed when writing down the Emesal dialect (since the usual logograms would have been read in Emegir by default), for the purpose of teaching the language and often in ...
Sumerian or Sumerians may refer to: Sumer, an ancient civilization Sumerian language; Sumerian art; Sumerian architecture; Sumerian literature;
Sumer (/ ˈ s uː m ər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
The cuneiform sign ur is a common-use sign in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts.It has multiple sub-uses in the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as use for the Sumerogram (capital letter ()), UR.
Dingir 𒀭 , usually transliterated DIĜIR, [1] (Sumerian pronunciation:) is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'. Its cuneiform sign is most commonly employed as the determinative for religious names and related concepts, in which case it is not pronounced and is conventionally transliterated as a superscript d , e.g. d Inanna .
Cuneiform sign for hi/he.Also DǛG, HI, and ŠÁR. Crop of (Reverse) of Amarna letter EA 245, showing cuneiform hi, beginning of spelling of city-state Hannathon. (7th line from top, last sign)
The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC.
The history of Sumer spans through the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE.