“In Heaven, at Evening”
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Paul Delnero
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Uri Gabbay
Abstract
The article presents an edition of the Old Babylonian Sumerian Eršema “In heaven, at evening” according to the tablet MS 3406, published here for the first time, and parallels. The Eršema describes Inana lamenting her losses and the capture of her spouse Dumuzi.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- New Evidence for Sumerian Agricultural Land Terminology in Sargonic Umma
- “kišib-gu10 zi-ra-ab”: Annul my Sealed Tablet!
- A Tale of Two Cities
- “In Heaven, at Evening”
- The Archaeological Distribution of the Cuneiform Corpus
- On Shifting Social and Urban Landscapes in Uruk under Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur II
- The Vanity Theme and Critical Wisdom in Mesopotamian Literature
- Taxation and Tax Farming in the Egibi Archive
