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Shuruppak (Sumerian: 𒋢𒆳𒊒𒆠 ŠuruppagKI, SU.KUR.RUki, "the
healing place"),
modern Tell Fara, was an
ancient Sumerian city
situated about 55 kilometres...
- The
Instructions of
Shuruppak (or,
Instructions of Šuruppak son of Ubara-tutu) are a
significant example of
Sumerian wisdom literature.
Wisdom literature...
- romanized: Ṣísudda,
Ancient Gr****: Ξίσουθρος, romanized: Xísouthros) of
Shuruppak (c. 2900 BC) is
listed in the WB-62
Sumerian King List
recension as the...
- 𒌓𒍣, "he has
found life") was a
legendary king of the
ancient city of
Shuruppak in
southern Iraq, who,
according to the
Gilgamesh flood myth, one of several...
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artificial creatures. The name "Atra-Hasis" also appears, as a king of
Shuruppak on the
Euphrates in the
times before that flood, on one of the Sumerian...
- deity). At an
early date
Ninlil was
identified with the
goddess Sud from
Shuruppak, like her ****ociated with Enlil, and
eventually fully absorbed her. In...
- 2600–2500 BCE: The
Instructions of
Shuruppak, the
earliest known literary texts, are
created in Adab,
Shuruppak and Abu Salabikh. 2570 BCE:
Reigns of...
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Nintur placed under Nudimmud), then Badtibira, Larak, Sippar, and
finally Shuruppak. The
cities were
established as
distributional (not monetary) economies...
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Examples of this
genre include: Book of Proverbs, The
Instructions of
Shuruppak, and
first part of Sima Milka.
Critical Negative Wisdom (AKA "Vanity Literature"...
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hinted at by that name in the Old
Babylonian Version of "Instructions of
Shuruppak" are only
developments during that Old
Babylonian Period, when also the...
