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The paper publishes fifteen tablets from the Iraq Museum dating to the Ur III period, the last Sumerian-led state, in the late third millennium BCE. From clues inside the texts, the authors conclude most of the tablets come from the Umma region.
Iraq (journal), Cambridge University Press · Abather Rahi Saadoon, Noemi Borrelli, Maurizio Viano · Oct 2 · Read the source →
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