Jeremiah Peterson

Sumerologist who likes cuneiform tablets so much he makes them himself.

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All done with the Nippur Murder Trial. A lot of fun to make this one!

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@incunabula It's headed to the shop. This was my first go at the text but it has turned out OK for sale (unless something happens in the kiln, of course).

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Halfway through my rendition of the so-called Nippur Murder Trial, a fictional or “model” court case that was encountered in the scribal schools at old Babylonian Nippur.

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A brief Sumerian incantation for removing snakes and scorpions from a temple that invokes the goddess Nammu, the personification of the watery deep.

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Early Dynastic literary text. Fun to make, and I love the quirks of the hand, but not enough sense to be had.

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@aquel_gringo That’s not one of mine. My shop is at https://t.co/NcVT3RebD3

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@IrradiatedAbe Nice paraphrase!

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“There is no baked cake in the middle of the dough.” Sumerian proverb

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"(Noble)men cover over a banquet like vultures" (igi gishbun-na hu-ri2-in{mushen}-gin7 lu2 im-ma-shu2-shu2), from the Sumerian "Counsels of Wisdom."

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Major Mesopotamian city names, including Nippur, Ur, Isin, Larsa, Uruk, Adab, Kulaba and Sippar, from the list of realia ur5-ra.

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@DJHammurabi1 Thanks Josh! I had a great time making it for you!

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“Never was the day that a mother gave birth to a sinless child.” A quote from the Sumerian composition Man and God.

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A bi2-za-za in my backyard flower bed.

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@MikeWingert Thank you!

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My rendition of the initial part of the Nippur God List, which was used in the scribal schools of OB Nippur. For some reason it's particularly fun to incise texts that begin with the same sign over and over again.

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My rendition of Axe for Nergal, the dedication of an axe to the god of war and ruler of the netherworld by one Nibrutalu in exchange for a favorable life and afterlife. It was a model text used in scribal schools.

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My rendition of the seventh hymn of the collection of Temple Hymns, which features the temple of the goddess Ninhursanga at Kesh, not to be confused with the famous Kesh Temple Hymn.

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A couple renditions of an OB antediluvian king list and a water purification incantation.

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@MarkFunnell6 Fisher price was the bomb. That one in particular entertained me for hours. The elevator was mesmerizing.

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@zapapaias I do

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Several days of work: proverbs, elegy extracts, loans, an incantation, letter, and the hymn to Ninkasi.