The Ebla sources mention gír martu, an Amorite dagger. According to the Sumerian sources (such as Gudea Statue B), large stones were transported to Mesopotamia from Jebel Bishri. It is apparent that ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...