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This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the work of many scholars and from our ever-increasing understanding of Sumerian. In addition to reflecting the advances made by modern scholarship, the translations are written in clear, accessible English. An extensive introduction discusses the literary qualities of the works, the people who created and copied them in ancient Iraq, and how the study of Sumerian literature has evolved over the last 150 years.

Sumerian literature --- Littérature sumérienne --- Texts --- Textes

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Sumerian literature --- Transmission of texts. --- Littérature sumérienne --- Transmission de textes --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Critique textuelle --- Méthodologie --- Criticism, Textual. --- Littérature sumérienne --- Méthodologie.

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This volume honors Erle Verdun Leichty's substantial and wide-ranging contributions to the study of ancient Mesopotamia. The articles represent the latest thinking of leading scholars in the field of Assyriology/Sumerology. Thirty-eight contributions cover the following subjects: history, divination, magic, religion, ritual, medicine, literature, prosopography, lexicography, art and archaeology, and the history of the field. Some fifty texts are published and discussed for the first time. The volume is a valuable resource for Assyriologists and Sumerologists.

Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Sumerian literature --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Littérature sumérienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Iraq --- Irak --- Civilization --- Antiquities. --- Civilisation --- Antiquités --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Littérature sumérienne --- Antiquités

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This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions – the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany (SEpM) – studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the education system at this time. The author includes discussion of the nature of the letters as scribal inventions, the pedagogical function of literary letters and compilation tablets, as well as the creation, implementation and consistency of the advanced Sumerian scribal curriculum. The volume also contains critical editions of SEpM as well as ancillary Sumerian letters studied in the Nippur schools, the majority of which were previously unpublished.

Education --- Sumerian literature. --- History --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Éducation --- Histoire --- Sources --- Irak --- Babylone (ville ancienne) --- Éducation

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This book uses insights from religious studies, literary theory, and the history of science for understanding the Sumerian composition Nanše and the Birds in the context of the Old Babylonian scribal school. The discussions of Babylonian religion, literature, and scholarship focus on the usefulness and relevance of these modern concepts for categorizing the ancient text. The volume presents the first critical edition of Nanše and the Birds , as well as editions of the hymn Nanše B and all third millennium and Old Babylonian lexical lists of birds. It includes 37 plates with photographs and line drawings, including many previously unpublished tablets. The final chapter discusses the identity and orthography of all Sumerian bird names in literary, administrative and lexical texts.

Nans?e and the birds. --- Sumerian literature - History and criticism. --- Sumerian literature --- Sumerians --- Birds --- History and criticism. --- Religion. --- Sumerian. --- Nanše and the birds. --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Littérature sumérienne --- Sumériens --- Oiseaux --- Nomenclature (Popular) --- Histoire et critique --- Religion --- Nomenclature populaire sumérienne --- Nan*se and the birds. --- Nanse and the birds --- History and criticism --- Sumerian --- Nanše et les oiseaux --- Nanse and the birds.