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General Texts
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Texts
Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum — Frederick Augustus VanderburghFrederick Augustus Vanderburgh’s thesis of 1907: a transliteration, English translation and sign-by-sign commentary of four unilingual Sumerian hymns, to Bêl, Sin, Adad and Tammuz, from Volume XV of the British Museum’s Cuneiform Texts, with an introduction on the four gods, a note by John Dyneley Prince and a glossary.Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms — Stephen LangdonStephen Langdon’s 1919 edition of Sumerian liturgical texts, most of them tablets from the temple library of Nippur in the University Museum, Philadelphia: laments for Nippur, Lagash, Erech and Ur, liturgies of the deified king Ishme-Dagan, psalms and liturgies to Enlil, Innini and Sin, Tammuz hymns, the liturgy of Keš and a tablet of Babylonian cult symbols, each in line-by-line transliteration and English translation with commentary and notes.Sumerian Mythology — Samuel Noah KramerSamuel Noah Kramer's foundational study of Sumerian mythology, presenting translations and analysis of the oldest literary texts in the world.