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Sumerian Religion
Religion of the earliest cities
c.4000 – c.1750 BCE · Ancient Near East · Extinct · Southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq)
II. THE FIRST CIVILISATIONS — c.3000 – 1000 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.4000 BCE Temple platforms at Eridu, the city the Sumerians themselves named as the first.
- c.3200 BCE Proto-cuneiform on clay tablets at Uruk — invented to track temple offerings.
- c.2334–2279 BCE Sargon of Akkad installs his daughter Enheduanna as high priestess; her hymns fuse Sumerian and Akkadian gods to unify the empire.
- c.2100 BCE The great ziggurat of Ur built under Ur-Nammu.
- c.2100 BCE Separate Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh are in circulation.
- 18th c. BCE The Old Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh joins them into a single Akkadian narrative. The Standard version by Sîn-lēqi-unninni follows around 1200 BCE.
- c.1750 BCE Sumerian dies as a spoken language; the religion continues in Akkadian dress.
### Sources
Verified 2026-09-13, against these.
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review, George's critical edition of the Babylonian Gilgamesh
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