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Language: en
Pages: 110
Authors: Samuel Noah Kramer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-10 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m
Reading Sumerian Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Jeremy A. Black
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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An authority on ancient Mesopotamian culture, Jeremy Black here provides an introduction to the world's oldest poetry. Sumer, in southern Iraq, was the first li
From the Poetry of Sumer
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Samuel Noah Kramer
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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The Literature of Ancient Sumer
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Jeremy A. Black
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, p
The Harps that Once--
Language: en
Pages: 526
Authors: Thorkild Jacobsen
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Sumerian, the oldest language known, is represented by hundreds of thousands of clay tablets inscribed in the cuneiform writing system. Most of the tablets are