This local glossary is a shelf-specific companion to the central Good Works Glossary.

Shelf Terms

Sumerian corpus - The Sumerian-language literary, liturgical, royal, mythic, and scribal body of texts, including later copies and bilingual witnesses where Sumerian remains primary.

Disputation - A Sumerian school genre in which two animals, seasons, tools, or forces argue for superiority before a divine or royal judge.

City lament - A Sumerian liturgical genre mourning the destruction or abandonment of a city and pleading for divine restoration.

Royal praise hymn - A composition celebrating a king's divine election, temple service, justice, military power, and cosmic legitimacy.

Tablet house - The scribal school tradition that preserved and taught Sumerian literature through copying, translation, and examination.