Ea (Sign List Series)

Ea A = nâqu

Anonymous / tradition (standardized from earlier scribal tradition) · c. 11th-7th century BC (Standard Babylonian canonical edition of a much older lexical tradition) · Babylon (Iraq) · other

A canonical sign list giving the Sumerian pronunciation, cuneiform sign, and Akkadian meaning across thousands of entries argues that literacy itself needed a single standardized reference before a scribe trained in Babylon could reliably read a text written in Nineveh or Susa.