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The University of Chicago press
Language
English
Pages
97

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Subjects
Texts, Sumerian Elegiac poetry, Sumerian language

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Chicago, Ill

Edition Notes

"List of abbreviations" (bibliography): p. xi-xii.
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.

Series
The Oriental institute of the University of Chicago. Assyriological studies, no. 12, Assyriological studies ;, no. 12.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
892
Library of Congress
PJ4065 .L3 1940

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Pagination
xii, 97 p., 1 l.
Number of pages
97

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6413818M
LCCN
41002171

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