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Time Cellar · textual attestation
Hymn to Ninkasi written down
The Sumerian Hymn to Ninkasi was written down in the first half of the second millennium BCE and preserves a literary account connected to beer making.
Chronology
What date is actually being claimed
c. 1800 BCE · precision: circa year · approximate · Approximate conventional dating of surviving written form.
Claim boundary
The hymn is an important brewing text, but BEU does not present it as a literal modern recipe or assume its terminology maps cleanly onto modern process names.
Historical context
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Evidence claims
Where interpretation is explicitly recorded
historical fact · 78% confidence
recipe_interpretation
Modern brewing terminology and minimalist step-by-step reconstructions can distort the ancient text; BEU preserves the disagreement.
Provenance
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Tier B · reputable secondary
Review: In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia
Antiquity / Cambridge University Press
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Tier B · reputable secondary
The Hymn to Ninkasi, Goddess of Beer
World History Encyclopedia
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historical era
Ancient Brewing Civilizations
A wide lens for ancient urban beer evidence, material culture, texts, labor, and ritual.
Navigation heuristic: 38. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 6 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
occurred_during · forward
Hymn to Ninkasi written down — occurred during → Ancient Brewing Civilizations.
Historical event falls within an era. BEU places this anchor inside the scoped ancient brewing civilizations navigation era.
Evidence: Review: In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia
place
Mesopotamia
Historical region used for ancient Mesopotamian beer-text context; boundaries varied over time.
Navigation heuristic: 38. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 6 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
occurred_in · forward
Hymn to Ninkasi written down — occurred in → Mesopotamia.
Historical event occurred in a place. Location context for hymn to ninkasi text.
Evidence: Review: In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia