The Mesopotamian shelf gathers the public texts, source dossiers, and support pages currently held under this tradition room. Use this page as a doorway into the shelf rather than as a complete history of the tradition.

Main Doorways

• Disputations holds 4 public texts or support pages. Start with The Debate Between Summer and Winter, The Debate between Bird and Fish, The Debate between Grain and Sheep.
• Epics holds 9 public texts or support pages. Start with Erra and Ishum, Gilgamesh and Akka, Gilgamesh and Huwawa.
• General Texts holds 17 public texts or support pages. Start with Adapa and the Food of Life, Ancient Fragments, Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World.
• Hymns and Temple Songs holds 38 public texts or support pages. Start with A Balbale to Suen, A Hymn to Enlil (Enlil A), A Hymn to Ninsina for Iddin-Dagan.
• Inanna and the Gods holds 9 public texts or support pages. Start with A Hymn to Inanna, Dumuzi's Dream, Enlil and Ninlil.
• Laments holds 12 public texts or support pages. Start with A Balaĝ — In the City, in the Wide Square, A Lamentation to Enlil, A Penitential Psalm.
• Myths holds 6 public texts or support pages. Start with Angim Dimma — Ninurta's Triumphal Return, Enki and Ninhursag, Enki and Ninmah.
• Prayers and Incantations holds 50 public texts or support pages. Start with A Bilingual Litany for Enki, A Dream Omen Tablet, A Namburbi against the Evil of a Snake.
• Wisdom holds 11 public texts or support pages. Start with A Bilingual Proverb Collection, Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi, The Dialogue of Put-Ishtar and His Son.

Suggested Use

Begin with the introduction if one is present, then move into the rooms or individual texts listed above. For technical terms, names, and recurring concepts, use the local glossary on this shelf together with the central Good Works Glossary.