Institution Mesopotamia and the Levant
Sumer
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Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 5500 to 1800 BC
- Dated 55th century BCE – 19th century BCE
Founded, kept
and handed on.
As the records give it
Connections
How Sumer connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 9
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply that the culture was religiously uniform
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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figures of E-ninnu sumerian temple for Ningirsu in Girsu -
figures of Enlil ancient Mesopotamian god -
.jpg/120px-Ziggurat_at_Eridu_(30809118442).jpg "Picture: lead image of the English Wikipedia article")
figures of Eridu archaeological site in Iraq -
figures of Kish ancient Sumerian city -
figures of Lamashtu demoness in ancient Mesopotamian religion -
figures of Marad archaeological site in Iraq -
figures of Sumerian creation myth creation myth -
figures of Uruk ancient city of Sumer and Babylonia -
figures of Ziggurat of Ur early Bronze Age ziggurat in present-day Iraq
Place 2
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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