Explore: Sumerian Liturgical Texts

enabled them to form urban settlements. The world's earliest known texts come from the Sumerian cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 –

historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts in biblical archaeology. In spite of the name, the included texts have broad coverage and do

popular genres for Sumerian texts after the Old Babylonian period were incantations, liturgical texts and proverbs; among longer texts, the classics Lugal-e

Religious texts, including scripture, are texts which various religions consider to be of central importance to their religious tradition. They often

and written in the society in which a religion's sacred texts were first set down; these texts thereafter become fixed and holy, remaining frozen and immune

Sin (/ˈsiːn/) or Suen (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂗𒍪, dEN.ZU) also known as Nanna (Sumerian: 𒀭𒋀𒆠 DŠEŠ.KI, DNANNA) is the Mesopotamian god representing the moon.

1915. Sumerian grammatical texts. Publications of the Babylonian Section vol.12 no.1. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. 1917. Sumerian liturgical

Chiera in 1924 in "Sumerian religious texts". Sir Charles Leonard Woolley unearthed more tablets at Ur contained in the "Ur excavations texts" from 1928. Other

An eduba (Sumerian: 𒂍𒁾𒁀𒀀, romanized: e2-dub-ba-a, lit. 'house where tablets are passed out') is a scribal school for the Sumerian language. The eduba

names are first attested in Sumerian texts in the mid-3rd millennium BC, and inscriptions ostensibly written in Sumerian but whose character order reveals