The Erya or Erh-ya is the earliest surviving Chinese dictionary. The sinologist Bernhard Karlgren concluded that "the major part of its glosses must reasonably date from the 3rd century BC."
Erya exhibit at Chinese Dictionary Museum (Jincheng, Shanxi)
The Urra=hubullu is a major Babylonian glossary or "encyclopedia". It consists of Sumerian and Akkadian lexical lists ordered by topic. The canonical version extends to 24 tablets, and contains almost
Erya
…Piya Urra=hubullu, Babylonian glossary Coblin, W. South (1993). "Erh ya" 爾雅. In Loewe, Michael (ed.). Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley: Society for…