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  title info:
    title: Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection
    sub title: Volume 1: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion
  name:
    name part: Metcalf, Christopher
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  name:
    name part: Metcalf, Christopher
    role:
      role term: oth
  name:
    name part: Owen, David I.
    role:
      role term: oth
  name:
    name part: Schøyen, Martin
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      role term: oth
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx#
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (168 p.) 54 illustrations
  abstract: 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
  note: Christopher Metcalf
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Ancient / General
  identifier: 9781646020119
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646020119
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781646020119
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781646020119/original
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  record info:
    record content source: EBA-deGruyter
    record creation date: 210927
    record change date: 20251128134508.0
    record identifier: 99371014042406441
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger