"Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft…
Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website. Volume Two: This important scholarly work documents 106 religious, …
"This series of scholarly publications focuses on the collection of cuneiform tablets and inscriptions in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art. These objects were acquired largely during the 1880s, when the Metropolitan became the first American museu…
Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website. Volume Two: This important scholarly work documents 106 religious, …
The lamentation over the destruction of Ur
by Samet, Nili
fromMesopotamian civilizations
The lamentation over the destruction of Ur
by Samet, Nili
fromMesopotamian civilizations
The lamentation over the destruction of Ur
by Samet, Nili
fromMesopotamian civilizations
The lamentation over the destruction of Ur
by Samet, Nili
fromMesopotamian civilizations
The lamentation over the destruction of Ur
by Samet, Nili
fromMesopotamian civilizations
The goal of this book is to present a revised edition of the Sumerian Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur, a lament bewailing the fall of the glorious Ur III kingdom in 2004 B.C.E.Lamentation is a well-known genre in world literature. Laments of various types are part of the …