Love Songs in Sumerian Literature: Critical Edition of the Dumuzi-Inanna Songs"[Volume] is a collection of all the sources, published and unpublished, dealing with the love, courtship and sacred marriage of the Mesopotamian love-goddess Inanna (Ishtar) and her divine spouse Dumuzi (Tammuz). This literary corpus composed during the Third Dynasty of Ur and the early Old Babylonian period (ca. 2100-1800 BCE) consist of 27 songs with approximately 1500 lines of poetry"--Jacket. |
Contents
I | 17 |
SACRED MARRIAGE AND THE DUMUZIINANNA SONGS | 30 |
Evidence for the Sacred Marriage Rite in the Dumuzi | 38 |
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Common terms and phrases
according Alster alternatively Amaušumgalanna Ancient apparently assumed balbale beloved bring brother brought composition context copy describes DI D discussion Dumuzi Dumuzi-Inanna songs edition Emesal Enlil epithet example expression eyes Falkenstein farmer father further gifts goddess H obv hair Hallo hand hé-me-en heart hi-li hymn Iddindagan Inanna indicates interpretation Jacobsen JAOS king Klein Kramer lapis lazuli lines literary literature lord love songs meaning mentioned metaphor milk mother Note obverse occurs parallel perhaps person plant plow possibility praise present probably pure reading refers restoration reverse rite royal sacred marriage seems shepherd similar sister Sjöberg speaks strophe structure Studies subscript Šulgi Sumerian Šusin sweet term translation verb Wilcke x x x young