A community-maintained tertiary reference on Mesopotamian prayer, directly examined. Its strength is naming five distinct prayer genres by their own scholarly labels rather than treating Mesopotamian prayer as one undifferentiated form; its limit is that the article itself carries several citation-needed gaps on dating, which is read honestly here rather than papered over, and is part of why it sits at reliability tier three. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on Mesopotamian prayer, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for its named prayer genres beyond the shuila, the Gottesbriefe letters to a deity, the ikribus and shigu genres, and the namburbi apotropaic prayers, and its definition of prayer as praise to a god followed by request. NotesWikipedia's article on Mesopotamian prayer, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for its named prayer genres beyond the shuila, the Gottesbriefe letters to a deity, the ikribus and shigu genres, and the namburbi apotropaic prayers, and its definition of prayer as praise to a god followed by request.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_prayer
Source Typereference
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This source names Mesopotamians directly: "A community-maintained tertiary reference on Mesopotamian prayer, directly examined."
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Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Prayers, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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