Love songs in Sumerian literature
Subtitle: critical edition of the Dumuzi₋Inanna songs
By: Yitschak Sefati.
Series: Bar-Ilan studies in Near Eastern languages and culture.
Publisher: Bar₋Ilan University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ramat Gan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Love poetry, Sumerian.; Love songs -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- Texts.
Description: "[Volume] is a collection of all the sources, published and unpublished, dealing with the love, courtship and sacred marriage of the Mesopotamian love-goddess Inanna (Ishtar) and her divine spouse Dumuzi (Tammuz).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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-376) and indexes.