Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson and Gabor Zolyomi are Assyriologists and Sumerologists, and this academic book, published by Oxford University Press, surveys the surviving literature of ancient Sumer in translation, drawing on the same cuneiform textual corpus maintained by the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature project the authors worked on. Its strength is direct grounding in primary cuneiform sources translated by specialists actively working on that literature, rather than secondhand retellings. Its limit is that Sumerian literary texts often survive in fragmentary and sometimes conflicting versions across different tablets, and the translations here represent the editors' best scholarly reconstruction rather than a single undisputed original text.
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AuthorJeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson and Gabor Zolyomi
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2004
URLhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-literature-of-ancient-sumer-9780199296330
Source TypeCritical translation with scholarly introduction
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A scholarly critical translation, published by Oxford University Press, of Sumerian literary texts including the Exaltation of Inanna and the hymn to Ninkasi, with discussion of the Enheduanna attribution. NotesTranslations of Sumerian literary texts including the Exaltation of Inanna and the hymn to Ninkasi, with discussion of the Enheduanna attribution.
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This source backs 95 claims across the atlas. As facts: 64 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 15 holds. Plus 15 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Deities, 31 claims: 22 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 5 general references.
- Hymns & Liturgical Texts, 24 claims: 17 well-attested, 4 holds, 3 general references.
- Articles, 15 claims: 13 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Cultures, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 4 claims: 2 holds, 2 general references.
- Languages, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Religious Symbols, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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