A Sumerian Reading-Book
Author: C.J. Gadd
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 5873153027
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A Sumerian Reader
Author: Konrad Volk
Publisher: Gregorian Biblical BookShop
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains 44 texts of varying contents: royal inscriptions, legal, and economic documents. For pedagogical reasons literary texts are not included. Some of the texts are accompanied by a transliteration and/or version in Neo-Assyrian so that the students can learn the Neo-Assyrian forms which are of basic importance for the use of the sign list book and for most assyriological sign lists.
Reading Sumerian Poetry
Author: Jeremy A. Black
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780801435980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authority on ancient Mesopotamian culture, Jeremy Black here provides an introduction to the world's oldest poetry. Sumer, in southern Iraq, was the first literate civilization, with writing dating back as far as 3100 B.C. Its extensive poetic literature was lost for nearly two millennia; rediscovery and decipherment of the ancient writings began in the nineteenth century. Black is fully aware of the difficulties of applying modern literary methods to the study of ancient literature, emphasizing theoretical problems that arise from contemporary expectations of a unitary text. Looking closely at the imagery in the Lugalbanda poems, Black perceives in them a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense "primitive," are so complex as to resist modern literary analysis.
Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian
Author: Joshua Bowen
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781734358605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Literature of Ancient Sumer
Author: Jeremy A. Black
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780199296330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. This is a comprehensive collection.
The Sumerians: A History from Beginning to End
Author: Hourly History
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9781720228035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sumerians The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around five thousand years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed
Cuneiform
Author: C. B. F. Walker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780520061156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the writing system used from before 3000 BC to AD 75 by Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and other Mesopotamian cultures.
The Sumerians
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2021-03-22
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 178914423X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
Author: Enheduanna
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780292752429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround 2,300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume translates Enheduanna's three devotional poems to the goddess Inanna accompanied by an extensive commentary and discussion which places these highly personal and unique expressions within the context of Sumerian culture and religion. The author highlights the importance of the poems and the princess for our understanding of the place of women in Near Eastern society and religion.
The Sumerians
Author: Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-09-17
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0226452328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture” from a world-renowned Sumerian scholar (American Journal of Archaeology). The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. “An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity.” —Library Journal
