Sumerian literary fragments in the University Museum, Philadelphia

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English | 2011 | ISBN: 8400093143 | PDF | pages: 431 | 66.3 mb
The Sumerian literary fragments that are presented here, the vast majority of which are Old Babylonian in date and come from the pre-WWI excavations at Nippur, are categorized primarily according to the numerical designations maintained by the catalog of the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature for ease of reference.1 I have added an additional category, collective tablets, on the basis that texts featured in collective sources can pertain to more than one category. With the exception of the contents of collective tablets, this volume does not include fragments pertaining to divine hymns (ETCSL category 4) and debates, dialogues, Eduba compositions, and other miscellaneous textual categories (ETCSL category 5). These fragments will be treated by the author separately.