Sources

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

Citation Formats

General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-electronic-text-corpus-of-sumerian-literature.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-electronic-text-corpus-of-sumerian-literature

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-the-electronic-text-corpus-of-sumerian-l,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-electronic-text-corpus-of-sumerian-literature},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

This is a scholarly online corpus built by a named team of specialist Assyriologists at Oxford, offering transliterations and translations of the Sumerian literary corpus, the Descent of Inanna, Enki and the World Order and the Kesh temple hymn among it, made directly from the cuneiform sources by that team. This record states the year given is that of the corpus's final scholarly release rather than a single publication date for one printed book, an honest description of what an ongoing online scholarly project actually is. Use it for the content of these Sumerian literary texts as this corpus translates them; a claim resting on a disputed reading of a damaged tablet needs the specialist Assyriological literature addressed directly.

Facts

Citation

Author

Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gabor Zolyomi and others

Publisher

University of Oxford

Publication Year

2006

URL

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/

Source Type

reference-database

Assessment

Reliability Tier

A scholarly digital edition maintained by the University of Oxford and built by named Assyriologists, the standard academic reference for these texts.

Notes

Transliterations and translations of the Sumerian literary corpus, including the Descent of Inanna, Enki and the World Order and the Kesh temple hymn. Year is that of the final release of the corpus.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Enki

This source names Enki directly: "corpus, the Descent of Inanna, Enki and the World Order and the Kesh temple hymn among it, made directly from the cuneiform sources by that team."

Source The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian LiteratureJeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gabor Zolyomi and others

Inanna

This source names Inanna directly: "literary corpus, the Descent of Inanna, Enki and the World Order and the Kesh temple hymn among it, made directly from the cuneiform sources by that team."

Source The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian LiteratureJeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gabor Zolyomi and others

Sumerians

This source names Sumerians directly: "This is a scholarly online corpus built by a named team of specialist Assyriologists at Oxford, offering transliterations and translations of the Sumerian literary corpus, the Descent of Inanna..."

Source The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian LiteratureJeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gabor Zolyomi and others

Claims Backed By This Source (42 claims)

This source backs 42 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 19 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.