Title: Love songs in Sumerian literature
First published: 1998
Description: "[Volume] is a collection of all the sources, published and unpublished, dealing with the love, courtship and sacred marriage of the Mesopotamian love-goddess Inanna (Ishtar) and her divine spouse Dumuzi (Tammuz).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.
Subjects: Love poetry, Sumerian, Love songs, Sumerian Love poetry, Texts, Sumerian poetry, History and criticism, Love poetry
Places: Babylonia, Iraq
LC classification: PJ4061 .S44 1998