Cuneiform Artefacts of the Early Dynastic Period from the Inana Temple in Nippur

祈愿礼物（雕像、石花瓶和碗等）和行政文件上的铭文是早期王朝时期（公元前2900-2300年）的楔形文字文物，是美国挖掘者（1952-1962）从尼普尔的伊娜娜神庙中发现的。多亏了神庙建筑的地层学，这些以前只知道一部分的书面证词，按照时间顺序延续了几个世纪——这是美索不达米亚在这些时期的一个独特发现，因此对于楔形文字的年代学与其他人工制品的联系至关重要。此外，这些书面资料为早期寺庙的宗教和管理实践提供了独特的见解。这个重要的收藏大约有125件楔形文字人工制品，是由罗伯特·d·比格斯（Robert D. Biggs, ICAS Chicago）花了几十年（1962年至2007年）编纂的，他还提供了文件的图纸（“副本”）；然而，《伊娜娜寺》的最后出版尚未完成。现在Richard L. Zettler（费城）承担了出版的任务，并与Biggs一起与申请人接洽，将楔形文字文物出版，并为此更新音译，增加翻译和评论。为了公正地对待这些藏品的意义，必须考虑到楔形文字文物的考古发现背景，以及文本的布局和结构以及其中提到的姓名，职业和术语。此外，还将编制一份楔形文字古表。因此，我们也可以利用来自伊拉克博物馆的新数码照片，这些照片是慕尼黑学院项目“背景下的伊拉克楔形文字文物”的一部分，该项目始于2022年。

Inscriptions on votive gifts (statues, stone vases and bowls etc) and administrative documents are the cuneiform artefacts of the Early Dynastic period (2900-2300 BC) that the American excavators (1952-1962) recovered from the Inana Temple at Nippur. Thanks to the stratigraphy of the temple buildings, these written testimonies, previously known only in part, stand in a chronological sequence extending over centuries - a singular find in Mesopotamia for these periods and therefore of central importance for a chronology of cuneiform texts in connection with other groups of artefacts. In addition, these written sources offer unique insights into the religious and administrative practices of an early temple. This important collection of about 125 cuneiform artefacts was compiled by Robert D. Biggs (ICAS Chicago) over decades (1962-2007), and he has also provided drawings (“copies”) of the documents; however, the final publication of the Inana Temple has not yet been completed. Now Richard L. Zettler (Philadelphia) has taken on the task of publication and, together with Biggs, approached the applicant to bring the cuneiform artefacts to publication and, to this end, to update the transliterations and add translations and commentaries. In order to do justice to the significance of the collection, the archaeological find contexts of the cuneiform artefacts must be taken into account, as well as the layout and structure of the texts and the names, occupations and terms mentioned there. In addition, a palaeographic table of the cuneiform signs is to be compiled. Thereby, we can also draw on new digital photos from the Iraq Museum, which have just been produced as part of the Munich Academy project "Cuneiform Artefacts of Iraq in Context", which began in 2022.