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Sumerian writing expressed pronunciation only roughly. It was often morphophonemic, so much of the allomorphic variation could be ignored. [124] Especially in earlier Sumerian, coda consonants were also often ignored in spelling; e.g. /mungฬareš/ 'they put it here' could be written ๐ฌ๐ป๐ท mu-gฬar-re 2.
Dingir ๐ญ , usually transliterated DIฤIR, [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 .
Sumer (/ ห s uห m ษr /) 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.
However, over the course of the 20th century, the scholarly consensus gravitated away from dun towards shul as the correct pronunciation of the ๐ sign. The spelling of Shulgi's name by scribes with the diฤir determinative reflects his deification during his reign, a status and spelling previously claimed by his Akkadian Empire predecessor ...
Alulim (Sumerian: ๐ ๐ป ๐ , romanized: Álulim; transliterated: aโ.lu.lim) was a mythological Mesopotamian ruler, regarded as the first king ever to rule. He is known from the Sumerian King List, Ballad of Early Rulers, and other similar sources which invariably place him in Eridu and assign a reign lasting thousands of years to him.
The Sumerian King List provides a tentative political history of ancient Sumer and mentions, among others, several rulers of Ur. Mesannepada is the first king mentioned in the Sumerian King List, and appears to have lived in the 26th century BC.
Assyrian scribes. An eduba [a] (Sumerian: ๐๐พ๐๐, romanized: e 2-dub-ba-a, lit. 'house where tablets are passed out' [1]) is a scribal school for the Sumerian language.
Ninurta (Sumerian: ๐ญ๐ฉ๐๐ : D NIN. URTA, possible meaning "Lord [of] Barley"), [1] also known as Ninฤirsu (Sumerian: ๐ญ๐๐๐ข: D NIN. ฤIR 2.SU, meaning "Lord [of] Girsu"), [2] is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer.