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Lamentation over the destruction of Ur / by Samuel N. Kramer ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oriental institute of the University of Chicago. Assyriological studies ; no. 12.
- The Oriental institute of the University of Chicago. Assyriological studies ; no. 12.
- Standardized Title:
- Lamentation over the destruction of Ur. English & Sumerian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sumerian language--Texts.
- Sumerian language.
- Songs, Sumerian.
- Sumerian literature.
- Elegiac poetry, Sumerian.
- Ur (Extinct city).
- Nippur (Extinct city).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 97 pages, 1 leaf : facsimiles ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago press, [1940]
- Notes:
- Transliteration and translation on opposite pages (p. 16-71).
- "This lamentation, consisting of eleven songs and 436 lines ... composed and inscribed some time during the Isin-Larsa-Babylon I period ... is practically complete ... Moreover ... the translation as a whole is reasonably certain and relatively free from obscurities."-- Pref.
- "With the exception of one tablet whose provenance is uncertain, all the tablets used ... belong to the so-called Nippur 'literary' material ... now located in the University [of Pennsylvania] museum at Philadelphia and in the Museum of the ancient Orient at Istanbul." -- Introd.
- "List of abbreviations" (bibliography): pages xi-xii.
- Local Notes:
- From the Library of Prof. Svi Rin and Shifra Rin.
- OCLC:
- 8990739
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