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Official Texts
| Period | Chronological Range | Royal Inscription | Votive texts | Annals | Standard inscription | Chronicles | Autobiographies |
| Pre-Writing | ca. 8500-3500 BC | | | | | | |
| Uruk V | ca. 3500-3350 BC | | | | | | |
| Uruk IV | ca. 3350-3200 BC | | | | | | |
| Uruk III | ca. 3200-3000 BC | | | | | | |
| Proto-Elamite | ca. 3100-2900 BC | | | | | | |
| Early Dynastic I-II | ca. 2900-2700 BC | very few (see for example here) | | | | | |
| Early Dynastic IIIa | ca. 2700-2500 BC | few (see for example here) | | | | | |
| Early Dynastic IIIb | ca. 2500-2340 BC | common | | | | | |
| Ebla | ca. 2350-2250 BC | | | | | | |
| Old Akkadian | ca. 2340-2200 BC | common | | | | | |
| Linear Elamite | ca. 2200 BC | corpus consists only of royal inscriptions | | | | | |
| Lagash II | ca. 2200-2100 BC | common | | | | | |
| Harappan | ca. 2200-1900 BC | | | | | | |
| Ur III | ca. 2100-2000 BC | common | | | | | |
| Early Old Babylonian | ca. 2000-1900 BC | | | | | | |
| Old Assyrian | ca. 1950-1850 BC | | | | | | |
| Old Babylonian | ca. 1900-1600 BC | | | | | | |
| Middle Hittite | ca. 1500-1100 BC | | | | | | |
| Middle Babylonian | ca. 1400-1100 BC | | | | | | |
| Middle Assyrian | ca. 1400-1000 BC | | | | | | |
| Middle Elamite | ca. 1300-1100 BC | | | | | | |
| Neo-Assyrian | 911-612 BC | yes | | yes | yes | | yes |
| Neo-Elamite | 770-539 BC | | | | | | |
| Neo-Babylonian | 626-539 BC | | | | | | |
| Achaemenid | 547-331 BC | | | | | | |
| Hellenistic | 323-63 BC | | | | | | |
| Parthian | 247 BC - 224 AD | | | | | | |
| Sassanian | 224-641 AD | | | | | | |
