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The Atrahasis flood narrative predates Gilgamesh Tablet XI as the earlier written attestation

The tradition's earliest named author of religious literature is a woman — Enheduanna, high priestess at Ur (fl. c. 2300 BCE)

The Eridu Level XVIII temple (c. 5500 BCE) is the earliest archaeologically attested cult building in Mesopotamia

Sumerian Religion