Kesh temple hymn
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The Kesh temple hymn, Liturgy to Nintud, or Liturgy to Nintud on the creation of man and woman, is a Sumerian tablet, written on clay tablets as early as 2600 BCE. Along with the Instructions of Shuruppak, it is the oldest surviving literature in the world.
Sumerian Temple
Ruins of a temple at Nippur
Copper figure of a bull from the Temple of Ninhursag, Tell al-'Ubaid, southern Iraq, around 2600 BCE.
Hymn to Enlil
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The Hymn to Enlil, Enlil and the Ekur (Enlil A), Hymn to the Ekur, Hymn and incantation to Enlil, Hymn to Enlil the all beneficent or Excerpt from an exorcism is a Sumerian myth, written on clay tablets in the late third millennium BC.
Figure of standing male worshiper, 2750-2600 B.C. (when Enlil was considered the most powerful god) from the "square temple" at Eshnunna
Feather robed and turbaned archer figure of Ashur (a later development of Enlil) superimposed on a sun disc