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The lament for Sumer and Urim: bibliography

Print sources used

Falkenstein, Adam, "Sumerische Hymnen und Gebete", in Falkenstein, Adam and von Soden, Wolfram(ed.), Sumerische und akkadische Hymnen und Gebete Zürich/Stuttgart, 1953, 192-213: translation

Kramer, Samuel Noah, "Sumerian Lamentation", in Pritchard, James B. (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Third ed.), Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1969, 611-619: translation

Kraus, H.-J., Klagelieder (Threni) (Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament). Neukirchener Verlag: Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1968, 8-13: commentary

Krecher, Joachim, "Klagelied", in Reallexikon der Assyriologie 6 (1980-83), 1-8: commentary

Michalowski, Piotr, The Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur (Mesopotamian Civilizations, 2). Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, IN, 1989: composite text, score transliteration, translation, commentary

Römer, Willem H.Ph., and Hecker, Karl, Kaiser, Otto (ed.), Lieder und Gebete 1 (Texte Aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments II, 5). Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn: Gütersloh, 1989, 700-707: translation, commentary (ll. 1-75 (by Römer))

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Cuneiform sources

(Figures and photos refer to Michalowski 1989.)


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