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.
RoyalLexicalLiteratureScientificComposite Number | Composite Designation | Witnesses | Tagged Witness |
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Q000789 | CDLI Literary 000789 (Poem of Early Rulers) composite | 1 | 0 |
Q000790 | CDLI Literary 000790 (Enlil and Namzitara) composite | 11 | 0 |
Q000791 | CDLI Literary 000791 (Dog for Nintinuga) composite | 2 | 0 |
Q000792 | CDLI Literary 000792 (Axe of Nergal) composite | 6 | 3 |
Q000793 | CDLI Literary 000793 (Home of Fish) composite | 8 | 3 |
Q000794 | CDLI Literary 000794 (Heron and Turtle) composite | 7 | 0 |
Q002295 | CDLI Literary 002295 (Adapa) composite | 3 | 0 |
Q002338 | CDLI Literary 002338 (Public Announcement Loss of Seal) composite | 3 | 1 |
Q002397 | CDLI Literary 002397 (Examenstext A) composite | 17 | 0 |
Q002398 | CDLI Literary 002398 (Examenstext B) composite | 1 | 0 |
Q002701 | CDLI Literary 002701 (ludlul bēl nēmeqi) composite | 0 | 0 |
Q002718 | CDLI Literary 002718 (enuma elish) composite | 0 | 0 |
Q002727 | CDLI Literary 002727 (Poor Man of Nippur) composite | 4 | 3 |
Q002873 | CDLI Literary 002873 (SB Gilgamesh epic) composite | 0 | 0 |
Q002873.01 | CDLI Literary 002873.01 (Gilgamesh epic 01) composite | 10 | 0 |
Q002873.02 | CDLI Literary 002873.02 (Gilgamesh epic 02) composite | 9 | 0 |
Q002873.03 | CDLI Literary 002873.03 (Gilgamesh epic 03) composite | 7 | 0 |
Q002873.04 | CDLI Literary 002873.04 (Gilgamesh epic 04) composite | 9 | 0 |
Q002873.05 | CDLI Literary 002873.05 (Gilgamesh epic 05) composite | 3 | 0 |
Q002873.06 | CDLI Literary 002873.06 (Gilgamesh epic 06) composite | 5 | 0 |