Lamentation over the destruction of Ur
By: by Samuel N. Kramer ...
Contributors: Kramer, Samuel Noah, 1897- ed.; Pennsylvania. University. University Museum. Babylonian Section.; Eski Şark Eserleri Müsesi (Istanbul, Turkey)
Series: The Oriental institute of the University of Chicago.  Assyriological studies, no. 12; Assyriological studies ;; no. 12.
Publisher: The University of Chicago press
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Sumerian language -- Texts; Elegiac poetry, Sumerian
Description: "This lamentation, consisting of eleven songs and 436 lines ... composed and inscribed some time during the Isin-Larsa-Babylon I period ... is practically complete ... Moreover ... the translation as a whole is reasonably certain and relatively free from obscurities"--Pref.
Notes: "List of abbreviations" (bibliography): p. xi-xii.
Transliteration and translation on opposite pages (p. 16-71)
"This lamentation, consisting of eleven songs and 436 lines ... composed and inscribed some time during the Isin-Larsa-Babylon I period ... is practically complete ... Moreover ... the translation as a whole is reasonably certain and relatively free from obscurities."-- Pref.
"With the exception of one tablet whose provenance is uncertain, all the tablets used ... belong to the so-called Nippur 'literary' material ... now located in the University [of Pennsylvania] museum at Philadelphia and in the Museum of the Ancient Orient at Istanbul." -- Introd.