Sumerian Texts from Ancient Iraq

Sumerian Texts from Ancient Iraq
Author: Benjamin Studevent-Hickman
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1937040860

The 145 tablets presented in this volume are among a larger group of 302 tablets confiscated by U.S. customs which were being stored in a World Trade Center building when it was destroyed on 9/11. The 145 tablets, which come from an unknown site near Nippur in southern Iraq, are the documents of a high official named Aradmu that detail routine agricultural operations, including receipts and grain loans. The group was repatriated to Iraq in late 2010, after the tablets were conserved and the author had completed his study. The editions offered in this volume complete an incredible journey for the tablets and the stories they hold.

The Literature of Ancient Sumer

The Literature of Ancient Sumer
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004-11-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 019155572X

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the work of many scholars and from our ever-increasing understanding of Sumerian. In addition to reflecting the advances made by modern scholarship, the translations are written in clear, accessible English. An extensive introduction discusses the literary qualities of the works, the people who created and copied them in ancient Iraq, and how the study of Sumerian literature has evolved over the last 150 years.

The Sumerians

The Sumerians
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 178914423X

The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.

Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Author: Benjamin R. Foster
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 140083287X

In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the subject. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of millennia--from the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the Persians, Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. Ancient Iraq was home to remarkable achievements. One of the birthplaces of civilization, it saw the world's earliest cities and empires, writing and literature, science and mathematics, monumental art, and innumerable other innovations. Civilizations of Ancient Iraq gives special attention to these milestones, as well as to political, social, and economic history. And because archaeology is the source of almost everything we know about ancient Iraq, the book includes an epilogue on the discovery and fate of its antiquities. Compelling and timely, Civilizations of Ancient Iraq is an essential guide to understanding Mesopotamia's central role in the development of human culture.

Sumerian Texts of Varied Contents. Cuneiform Series - Volume IV

Sumerian Texts of Varied Contents. Cuneiform Series - Volume IV
Author: Edward Chiera
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781019356876

The cuneiform texts collected in this volume offer a glimpse into the lives and beliefs of the ancient Sumerians. Edward Chiera provides translations and commentary on a wide variety of texts, including hymns, myths, and legal documents. His work is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history and culture of the ancient Near East. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
Author: Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1512817384

University Museum Monograph, 7

Tablets from the Iri-saĝrig Archive

Tablets from the Iri-saĝrig Archive
Author: Marcel Sigrist
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-06-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1646021436

While each of the previously known archives from the Third Dynasty of Ur has provided distinct views of Sumerian society, those from Iri-Saĝrig present an extraordinary range of new sources, depicting a cosmopolitan Sumerian/Akkadian city unlike any other from this period. In this publication, Marcel Sigrist and Tohru Ozaki present more than two thousand newly identified tablets, mostly from Iri-Saĝrig. This unique and extensive corpus elucidates the importance that Iri-Saĝrig represented politically, militarily, and culturally in Sumer. Although these tablets were not able to be cleaned, baked, or photographed, the authors’ transliterations are based on the original tablets, often after repeated collations. Moreover, access to so many well-preserved tablets made it possible to improve upon the readings and interpretations offered in previous publications. Volume 1 contains a catalog and classification of the texts by provenance, a list of month names and year formulas, another of inscriptions, a chronological listing of the texts, and extensive indexes of personal names, deities, toponyms, and selected words and phrases. Volume 2 presents the texts in transliteration with substantial commentary. This two-volume publication preserves and makes available to the scholarly community a significant segment of Iraq’s cultural legacy that otherwise might have been ignored or even lost. It will augment and enhance our understanding of the unique civilization of Mesopotamia in the late third millennium BCE.

Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History

Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History
Author: Marc Van De Mieroop
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2005-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134646429

Discusses how the abundant Mesopotamian cuneiform text sources can be used for the study of various aspects of history: political, social, economic and gender.