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Abu Salabikh
Sumerian city whose tablets of about 2600 BCE hold the oldest known literary texts.
Place
Identifiers
Wikidata Q195128
Appears in
1 item
The History of Writing
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First literature at Abu Salabikh
c. 2,550 BCE
Sources
Book
Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond
Book
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 BC
