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Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection : Volume 1: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion / Christopher Metcalf.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology ; 38Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (168 p.) : 54 illustrationsContent type:
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Statement of Provenance -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Catalog -- Concordances -- Texts -- 1. A Hymn to Sud -- 2. A Hymn to Lamma-saga (“Bau A”) -- 3. The Birth of Enlil -- 4. Two Hymns to Enlil (“Hymn to the Ekur”) and Enki -- 5. A Hymn to Ninimma -- 6–7. A Lament of Lisin (“Lisin A”) -- 8. A Hymn to Ninurta (“Išme-Dagan W”) -- 9. A Hymn to Utu -- 10. A Hymn to Nanše (“Nanše A”) -- 11–13. A Hymn to Nisaba (“Išbi-Erra E”) -- 14. A Hymn to Nanaya -- 15. A Poem Mentioning Ezinam -- 16. Two Hymns to Inana -- 17. A Poem about Ĝeštinana (“Dumuzi-Inana J”) -- References -- Index -- Cuneiform Texts / Plates I–LIV -- Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology
Summary: The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE.The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves.Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Statement of Provenance -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Catalog -- Concordances -- Texts -- 1. A Hymn to Sud -- 2. A Hymn to Lamma-saga (“Bau A”) -- 3. The Birth of Enlil -- 4. Two Hymns to Enlil (“Hymn to the Ekur”) and Enki -- 5. A Hymn to Ninimma -- 6–7. A Lament of Lisin (“Lisin A”) -- 8. A Hymn to Ninurta (“Išme-Dagan W”) -- 9. A Hymn to Utu -- 10. A Hymn to Nanše (“Nanše A”) -- 11–13. A Hymn to Nisaba (“Išbi-Erra E”) -- 14. A Hymn to Nanaya -- 15. A Poem Mentioning Ezinam -- 16. Two Hymns to Inana -- 17. A Poem about Ĝeštinana (“Dumuzi-Inana J”) -- References -- Index -- Cuneiform Texts / Plates I–LIV -- Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

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The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE.The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves.Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.

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