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Composites List

Composite texts are scholarly re-created "complete" versions of texts based on the various witnesses ancient Mesopotamians have written in the past and which survive to this day. These virtual complete versions of compositions help us understand the memorized, oral, or copied text which was at the origin of the written ones. They also help us reconstruct whole stories and lists since many witnesses are incomplete, because they are broken or because the scribe only wrote a section of the whole composition.

RoyalLexicalLiteratureScientific
Composite Number Composite Designation Witnesses Tagged Witness
Q000268 CDLI Lexical 000268 (ED Word List F) composite 12 8
Q000292 CDLI Lexical 000292 (ED Word List Z) composite 8 2
Q000299 CDLI Lexical 000299 (ED Animals B) composite 2 1
Q000302 CDLI Lexical 000302 (OB lu2-azlag2 B-C) composite 21 18
Q003902 CDLI Lexical 003902 (OB ugumu Varia) composite 23 17
Q003904 CDLI Lexical 003904 (OB izi Varia) composite 6 4
Qneeded_2 CDLI Lexical Pigs (Archaic Pigs) composite 0 0
Q000263 NABU 2008/37 10 2

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Page 3 of 3, showing 8 record(s) out of 48 total

Cite this Artifact
CDLI contributors. 2025. “Lexical Composites.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. April 16, 2025. https://cdli.earth/artifacts/composites/Lexical?page=3.
CDLI contributors. (2025, April 16). Lexical Composites. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/artifacts/composites/Lexical?page=3
CDLI contributors (2025) Lexical Composites, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/artifacts/composites/Lexical?page=3 (Accessed: April 16, 2025).
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